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Sr. Model Engineer, Mid-training

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3 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $440k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Scale synthetic coding data to trillions of tokens with large-scale Docker verification.
  • Distill flagship-model intelligence into flash models through synthetic data generation.
  • Optimize mid-training data mixtures to increase the ceiling for reinforcement learning.
  • Engineer long-context data recipes.
  • Develop robust and diverse evaluations for mid-training checkpoints.

Requirements

  • Write production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++.
  • Have experience training large models, including pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning training of neural networks with 1B+ parameters.
  • Be familiar with scaling laws and state-of-the-art techniques for curating AI training data across text, image, audio, and video modalities.
  • Demonstrate strong ML experiment design and engineering ability with large-scale data processing frameworks.
  • Preferred experience includes ML and large-model scaling, Spark, Ray, and other large-scale data processing frameworks.

Benefits

  • Base salary is $180,000–$440,000 USD.
  • Equity is included in the total rewards package.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage are provided.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks are provided.
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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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