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ML Infrastructure Engineer

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2 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $440k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale GPU compute infrastructure, training frameworks, and experimentation tools for rapid ML iteration.
  • Develop data pipelines and integrate large-scale data, training, and inference systems.
  • Collaborate with ML teams to productionize models and ensure seamless integration across the stack.
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of large-scale machine-learning systems.
  • Work across the full stack to solve complex problems independently.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's, master's, postgraduate, or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or another quantitative discipline, or equivalent work experience.
  • At least two years of industry experience with high-traffic or large-scale production environments, distributed systems, GPU infrastructure, and/or deep learning applications.
  • At least two years of experience with ML platforms, training infrastructure, or close collaboration with modeling engineers and data scientists.
  • Strong proficiency with Python and experience with compiled languages such as C++ or Rust.
  • Deep familiarity with modern ML frameworks such as JAX or PyTorch is preferred.
  • Low-level understanding of distributed storage, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA toolkits, and networking is preferred.
  • Experience with Linux systems, orchestration tools, job schedulers such as Slurm, configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible, or related infrastructure tooling is preferred.

Benefits

  • Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData EngineeringML Engineering
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About xAI

1,001-5,000 employees

Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers

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