xAI

Sr. Model Engineer, Post-Training & RL

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3 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $600k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop post-training and reinforcement learning methods for large AI models.
  • Work on reward modeling and preference optimization, including RLHF and DPO.
  • Apply reinforcement learning to improve model reasoning, truthfulness, and real-world capabilities.
  • Write production-quality model engineering code.

Requirements

  • Experience writing production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++.
  • Experience training large neural network models with 1 billion or more parameters through pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning.
  • Experience with post-training, RLHF, or models used by millions of people is preferred but not required.
  • Interest in truth-seeking AI, useful models, reinforcement learning, and alignment methods is preferred.

Benefits

  • $180,000–$600,000 USD base salary.
  • Equity compensation.
  • 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.

Categories

AI ResearchML 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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