
Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training at xAI
Palo Alto, CAFull-timeModelPosted 10 days ago
About the Role
<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ABOUT xAI</span></strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.</span></p></div><h3>Responsibilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Training trillion parameter neural networks at scale, as well as a variety of smaller specialized models.</li>
<li>Rapidly implementing the latest state-of-the-art methods from the deep learning literature.</li>
<li>Innovating new ideas for pretraining and new scaling paradigm.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Strong engineering skills with passion on model-hardware co-design.</li>
<li>Expert in ML and large model scaling, familiar with all kinds of scaling laws.</li>
<li>Familiar with distributed training, multi-GPU neural network training and experience on optimizing ML training efficiency.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Annual Salary Range</h3>
<p>$180,000 - $440,000 USD</p>
<h3><strong>Benefits</strong></h3>
<p>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.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our </em><em><a href="https://x.ai/legal/recruitment-privacy-notice" target="_blank">Recruitment Privacy Notice</a>.</em></p></div>
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