DevOps Engineer, xAI
Supercomputing
$180-370k
More information about location
Building artificial intelligence
Open for applications
Building artificial intelligence
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-370k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better.
Role
Who you are
- Writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust
- Managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries
What the job involves
- Operating some of the world’s largest GPU supercomputing clusters for both AI training and serving production models
- Implement IaC best practices, enhancing deployment pipelines, and ensuring robust, secure service delivery across our production environments
- Working with both on-premise clusters and cloud providers
- Help with security best practices for internal researchers and live external traffic
Application process
- After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement of exceptional work. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15 minute interview (“phone interview”) during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of four technical interviews:
- 1. Coding assessment in a language of your choice
- 2. Systems design: Translate high-level requirements into a scalable, fault-tolerant service
- 3. Systems hands-on: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session
- 4. Project deep-dive: Present your past exceptional work to a small audience
- 5. Meet and greet with the wider team
Our take
xAI is dedicated to tackling the limitations of current AI systems by developing Grok, an AI model designed to provide accurate, reliable, and witty responses to a wide range of queries. Grok is equipped with real-time knowledge access, allowing it to offer insightful answers and even suggest relevant questions.
The company is focused on enhancing Grok's reasoning abilities, reliability, and safety through research directions such as scalable oversight mechanisms, formal verification techniques, and adversarial robustness improvements. Additionally, xAI aims to broaden Grok's applicability by integrating multimodal capabilities like vision and audio, enabling real-time interactions and assistance in various domains.
As xAI continues to refine Grok's capabilities, the company envisions a future where AI serves as a powerful tool for advancing scientific understanding, fostering innovation, and contributing to societal well-being.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2024
$6bn
SERIES B
Dec 2023
$134m
SEED
Total funding: $6.1bn
Company benefits
- Medical, vision, dental
- STD, LTD and life insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Burlingame, CA
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Leadership
Elon Musk
(Founder)Founder, chairman, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX. CEO and product architect of Tesla. Chairman and CTO of X Corp, founder of the Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI, and president of the Musk Foundation.
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