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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments.
- Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products.
- Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms.
- Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics.
- Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems.
- 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments.
- Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products.
- Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms.
- Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics.
- Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems.
- 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
About the Role:
We’re looking for exceptional Fullstack / Web Engineers that can work across the stack but have a passion for frontend development and a keen eye for design. You'll architect and optimize user-facing features that power real-time conversations for millions worldwide. Dive into cutting-edge technologies and scalable backend systems, collaborating with top-tier talent to push the boundaries of web performance and innovation. You have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you proactively tackle high-impact challenges that shape the future of social media—perfect for engineers passionate about crafting seamless, responsive experiences that drive global engagement and redefine digital interaction.
Responsibilities:
- Own and drive features from inception and design to implementation and launch, being the web expert on your team.
- Build and maintain high-quality, performant products and features, leveraging the most modern and cutting edge web standards, technologies, frameworks, and AI tooling.
- Responsible for fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics
- Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.
- Drive technical/product decisions with teams and deploy global features to maximize user value.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of web development experience.
- Expert in TypeScript, Node.js, and modern web frameworks (e.g., React).
- Expert in modern CSS/SASS
- Experience in high-quality UI and UX design
- Proven track record of optimizing applications for performance, security, and offline functionality.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in a web frontend role, working on a large scale consumer app.
- Experience with backend development, proficiency in one or more of the following: Rust, Go, Java, Python, Scala.
Compensation and Benefits:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We're seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You'll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficient in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and reactive programming.
- Has a strong product sense and high craft bar. Builds intuitive and delightful user experiences.
- Experienced in architecting modern large production apps while embodying technical excellence.
- Strong sense of ownership and agency. Able to put on multiple hats and take responsibility for large areas.
- Able to optimize for performance, stability and reliability.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- A proven track record of shipping standout apps or features that demonstrate both technical excellence and exceptional product intuition.
- Deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and related development tools (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.).
- Rust for working with our backend components.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
About the Role:
As a Software Engineer for X Product/Platform, you’ll join the thirty person team responsible for building and scaling X. You will be tasked with independently owning significant parts of the system end-to-end: from intuitive user interfaces to robust backend services, data infrastructure, and deep AI integrations. This is a unique opportunity to impact while creating products that are loved by 600M+ users globally.
Responsibilities:
- Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments.
- Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products.
- Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms.
- Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics.
- Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.
Basic Qualifications:
- Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems.
- 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions.
Compensation and Benefits:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We’re seeking an exceptional iOS engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world’s most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You’ll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with product brilliance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Dream up and craft delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with AI on mobile.
- Obsess over every pixel, animation, and interaction, ensuring the experience feels magical and seamless.
- Build blazing-fast, highly performant systems where every millisecond counts.
- Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with AI researchers and engineers to deploy state-of-the-art models globally.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Expert in Swift, with deep knowledge of SwiftUI and UIKit.
- Proficient in performance optimization—memory, CPU, GPU—using low-level tools to deliver blazing-fast systems.
- Experienced in designing and shipping intuitive, pixel-perfect mobile UIs that redefine how users interact with AI.
- Skilled in concurrency and reactive programming (Combine) for responsive, real-time apps.
- Built high-throughput integrations with APIs (REST, gRPC) or AI model outputs, ensuring seamless data flow.
- Capable of owning complex features end-to-end, from architecture to App Store deployment, with a focus on speed and scalability.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Deep expertise in the Apple ecosystem and related development tools.
- Rust for working with our backend components.
- AVFoundation for real-time audio processing.
- Track record of shipping standout apps or standout features within apps.
- Deep expertise in iOS development, particularly with Swift. We seek individuals who operate at the highest levels of their craft.
- Excel at delivering results swiftly, often in a fraction of the time others require. Speed is a core value at xAI—we must act decisively to succeed.
- Sharp product sense, with an ability to empathize with users, anticipate their needs, and translate that into features that delight and deliver value.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Imagine Product team is redefining AI-driven media experiences for Grok users worldwide. In this role, you’ll build and scale robust, high-performance systems that power immersive, multi-modal media interactions—leveraging cutting-edge AI to enable seamless generation, processing, and delivery of images, video, audio, and beyond. Your work will drive engaging, real-time user experiences that captivate and delight millions, turning advanced multimodal models into production-grade features. If you’re a driven problem-solver passionate about AI, media technologies, and creating scalable solutions that shape the future of consumer AI, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and implement scalable systems to support Grok's AI-driven media experiences, ensuring high performance, reliability, and low-latency at global scale.
- Architect robust infrastructure for real-time multi-modal interactions, including handling generation requests, media processing, and seamless integration with frontend and model serving layers.
- Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines to ingest, process, and analyze multi-modal data (images, video, audio), fueling continuous improvement and personalization of Grok's media capabilities.
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, AI researchers, and product teams to deliver captivating, media-rich features and end-to-end user experiences.
- Own full-cycle development of solutions: from system design and prototyping to deployment, monitoring, observability, and iterative refinement.
- Deliver production-ready, maintainable code that powers features reaching hundreds of millions of users.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficiency in Python or Rust, with a strong track record of writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Experience designing and building systems for consumer-facing products, with emphasis on performance, reliability, and handling high-throughput workloads.
- Hands-on expertise in large-scale data infrastructure and pipelines, particularly for multi-modal or media-heavy AI applications.
- Proven ability to deliver robust, production-grade solutions to millions of users while maintaining high standards of quality and uptime.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for turning innovative ideas into high-impact, scalable realities.
- Deep enthusiasm for AI and media technologies, with a commitment to building user-focused products that inspire and engage.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience with real-time systems, inference serving, or multi-modal data processing at scale.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes), observability tools, or performance tuning for AI workloads.
- Background in AI-driven consumer products or media generation technologies.
- Track record collaborating across engineering, research, and product teams to ship delightful features quickly.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
You will join the Grok Main Product team, responsible for the user-facing chat portal at grok.com and related experiences. We build highly scalable frontends, APIs, and features that handle tens of thousands of queries per second. Our focus is delivering the best possible chat interface—seamless, intuitive, and maximally useful—to turn Grok into an essential "everything app" that amplifies human productivity across any domain.
Help build the portal that lets users accomplish anything: ask questions, create slide decks, solve puzzles, or tackle real work in engineering, law, medicine, and beyond. We're creating an easy-to-use experience that works flawlessly, driving a 10x increase in what knowledge workers can achieve. No prior AI experience required—just sharp thinking, relentless execution, and passion for AI that redefines what's possible. Own end-to-end features that delight millions, collaborating closely with model and research teams to ship breakthroughs at pace.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and deliver polished, scalable user-facing features and APIs for Grok's chat experience.
- Innovate on frameworks for rapid experimentation to iterate quickly and keep Grok leading in reasoning and utility.
- Architect high-performance systems for personalized, reliable interactions at global scale.
- Build and optimize data pipelines using real-time user signals to continuously improve the product.
- Own projects from ideation to deployment and monitoring, gathering feedback to refine the seamless portal vision.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proactive self-starter who turns bold ideas into high-impact realities with focused execution.
- Expert in TypeScript, Python, or Rust, with experience crafting clean, maintainable code.
- Skilled in scalable architectures, Kubernetes, observability, and production tuning for performance/reliability.
- Track record shipping consumer-facing products to millions, emphasizing user delight and feedback.
- Passionate about AI's transformative potential and committed to building indispensable tools users rely on daily.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Grok Voice Product team builds seamless, world-class voice experiences for Grok across every platform and product surface. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and shipping voice features across all surfaces. You will have the opportunity to collaborate across iOS, Android, and all product groups.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own backend engineering for scalable, low-latency voice infrastructure and model integrations.
- Collaborate directly with Grok Voice model, media, and product teams to deliver end-to-end experiences.
- Drive performance, reliability, and quality of voice interactions at global scale.
- Move fast across platforms and product groups as a generalist.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficiency in Python or Rust, with a strong track record of writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Deep interest in voice/audio AI.
- Strong generalist engineer with backend focus.
- Hands-on experience shipping features on iOS and/or Android.
- The ability to work across all product groups and do whatever it takes for best user experience.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Background in AI-driven consumer products or media generation technologies.
- Track record collaborating across engineering, research, and product teams to ship delightful features quickly.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Enterprise Agents Engineering Team at xAI is a team of builders solving the hardest problems in applied AI: integrating with messy systems, orchestrating complex workflows, and harnessing AI to transform business operations. We build full-stack solutions with ownership of end-to-end product execution from ideation to deployment, collaborating closely with our team to incorporate cutting-edge AI advancements into robust and reliable user-centric solutions. Through an iterative development process, we work hand-in-hand with customers to gather feedback, refine features, and evolve products to address real-world challenges.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++,
- Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems,
- Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices,
- Experience in operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and CockroachDB
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Expert knowledge of Python,
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized applications,
- Expert knowledge of TypeScript,
- Expert knowledge of gRPC (unary, response streaming, bi-directional streaming, REST mapping),
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, embeddings, or RAG patterns
- Track record of delivering user-facing software at scale.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and optimize microservices for high-concurrency transactions using Go, Postgres, and Kafka.
- Collaborate on system architecture, testing, and monitoring to ensure uptime and performance.
- Build internal tools using frontend technologies as needed to support operational efficiency.
- Support the Technical Lead in risk mitigation and align with engineering, product, and compliance teams to drive project success.
- Contribute to the development of secure, scalable systems for handling financial data and transactions.
- Iterate rapidly on feedback to deliver high-quality solutions in a dynamic environment.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
- Proficiency in Go or similar languages and experience with databases (e.g., Postgres) and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka).
- Familiarity with building distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments.
- Knowledge of handling secure financial data.
- Ability to contribute to frontend development for internal tools when required.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with a collaborative mindset.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience in fintech, payments, or regulatory frameworks (e.g., PCI-DSS, AML/KYC).
- Prior work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment on greenfield projects.
- Comfort navigating ambiguous requirements and iterating based on feedback.
- Passion for leveraging AI to transform financial systems.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We're seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You'll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proficient in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and reactive programming.
- Has a strong product sense and high craft bar. Builds intuitive and delightful user experiences.
- Experienced in architecting modern large production apps while embodying technical excellence.
- Strong sense of ownership and agency. Able to put on multiple hats and take responsibility for large areas.
- Able to optimize for performance, stability and reliability.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- A proven track record of shipping standout apps or features that demonstrate both technical excellence and exceptional product intuition.
- Deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and related development tools (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.).
- Rust for working with our backend components.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Data Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure responsible for all large-scale data transport and processing across the company. We own and manage core systems including Apache Kafka, HDFS, Spark, Flink, and Trino, enabling real-time ML pipelines, feed ranking, experimentation, analytics, and observability at petabyte scale. Our team deals with latency-critical workloads, high-throughput streaming, and distributed compute systems that require fault tolerance, performance, and absolute reliability.
As a software engineer on the Data Platform team, you will design, build, and operate the distributed systems powering X’s data movement and compute. You will take ownership of infrastructure components that process trillions of events daily, driving the scalability, performance, and reliability of the systems that power product and ML workloads across the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency data ingestion and transport systems.
- Scale and optimize multi-tenant Kafka infrastructure supporting real-time workloads.
- Extend and tune Spark, Flink, and Trino for demanding production pipelines.
- Build interfaces, APIs, and pipelines enabling teams to query, process, and move data at petabyte scale.
- Debug and optimize distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and performance under load.
- Collaborate with ML, product, and infrastructure teams to unblock critical data workflows.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proven expertise in distributed systems, stream processing, or large-scale data platforms.
- Proficiency in Rust, Go, Scala or similar systems languages.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Spark, Trino, or Hadoop*in production.
- Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills.
- Track record of shipping and maintaining critical infrastructure.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving, high-stakes environments with minimal guardrails.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at X, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Observability team builds and operates the core infrastructure that enables engineers to monitor, debug, and optimize the performance and reliability of their systems. We handle telemetry at massive scale — billions of time series and petabytes of logs — with strict performance and availability requirements.
You will be part of the small, high-impact team responsible for building and maintaining X’s observability platform. You’ll own critical systems that power metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting enabling engineering teams to operate services at scale, identify issues before they impact users, and drive systemic reliability improvements.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes.
- Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs that allow engineers to get real-time insights into their services.
- Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability across the company.
- Partner with infrastructure and product teams to deeply integrate observability into our internal platforms.
- Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or a similar languages
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture.
- Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse.
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases.
- Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Ready to apply?
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ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We’re looking for exceptional media engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate xAI’s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. We’re bringing xAI’s technology stack and using it to transform the video product experience - video playback, live streaming, Spaces, audio/video calls, and more. This is your chance to contribute in a major way while leveraging all of the powerful AI tools and talented colleagues at xAI.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Build the next generation of large-scale video services
- Contribute to and rebuild core media processing and distribution pipelines in high-performance languages (Rust, C++ or Go)
- Obsess over every millisecond and pixel, ensuring end-to-end media quality and performance at scale across a rich suite of products and user platforms
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- At least 5 years of experience
- Obsessed with media quality, performance, and product experience
- Proficient in high performance C++ or Go
- In-depth knowledge of either WebRTC or LL-HLS or video transcoding pipelines
- Familiar with building and running scalable and resilient distributed systems
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Go, C++, Rust, Java, Scala
- Kubernetes, FoundationDB, ValKey, Envoy, S3
- H.264, H.265, AV1, MP4, CMAF, VMAF, RTP, RTMP, LL-HLS, HDR, DRM
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Ready to apply?
Apply to xAI
ABOUT xAI
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We’re seeking an exceptional iOS engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world’s most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You’ll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with product brilliance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Dream up and craft delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with AI on mobile.
- Obsess over every pixel, animation, and interaction, ensuring the experience feels magical and seamless.
- Build blazing-fast, highly performant systems where every millisecond counts.
- Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with AI researchers and engineers to deploy state-of-the-art models globally.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Expert in Swift, with deep knowledge of UIKit and SwiftUI.
- Proficient in performance optimization—memory, CPU, GPU—using low-level tools to deliver blazing-fast systems.
- Experienced in designing and shipping intuitive, pixel-perfect mobile UIs that redefine how users interact with AI.
- Skilled in concurrency and reactive programming (Combine) for responsive, real-time apps.
- Built high-throughput integrations with APIs (REST, gRPC) or AI model outputs, ensuring seamless data flow.
- Capable of owning complex features end-to-end, from architecture to App Store deployment, with a focus on speed and scalability.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Deep expertise in the Apple ecosystem and related development tools.
- Rust for working with our backend components.
- AVFoundation for real-time audio processing.
- Track record of shipping standout apps or standout features within apps.
- Deep expertise in iOS development, particularly with Swift. We seek individuals who operate at the highest levels of their craft.
- Excel at delivering results swiftly, often in a fraction of the time others require. Speed is a core value at xAI—we must act decisively to succeed.
- A sharp product sense, with an ability to empathize with users, anticipate their needs, and translate that into features that delight and deliver value.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $440,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Ready to apply?
Apply to xAI