7 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship product features across the X Ads Platform.
- Develop systems for ad delivery, targeting, optimization, measurement, and advertiser experience.
- Use the company’s infrastructure and AI capabilities to improve advertising product performance and quality.
- Contribute to reliable, fast, and scalable distributed systems.
- Collaborate with engineers, product leads, and cross-functional partners to turn ideas into working products.
- Debug, maintain, and improve production systems serving users and driving business impact.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to write clean, maintainable code.
- Ability to learn new codebases quickly and solve problems through ambiguity.
- Experience building software through internships, projects, research, open-source work, startups, or full-time roles.
- Interest in backend systems, distributed systems, data pipelines, product engineering, or AI applications.
- Preferred experience with ads, recommendations, search, ranking, marketplaces, payments, analytics, or growth systems.
- Preferred experience with large-scale backend systems or data-processing pipelines.
- Preferred experience with React, Golang, Python, Rust, gRPC, Java, or Scala.
- Preferred experience with machine learning, LLMs, experimentation, ranking, or optimization systems.
Benefits
- Base salary of $150,000-$350,000 USD.
- Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
- Various discounts and other perks.
About xAI
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