AI Engineer - Search

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 engineers and researchers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.About the TeamThe AI search team aims to make Grok the best AI system for research, information retrieval and gathering real-time information from various sources. The team is responsible for curating high quality data and hard problems for RL training, making evaluations to benchmark AI systems and capture product issues, and building tools to unleash the capabilities of reasoning models.About the RoleIn this role you might:Build evaluation benchmarks to the next generation of search/research novate and curate challenging RL data with scalable synthetic/human data pipelineInnovate data, verification and RL algorithms to build the best open-ended research system.Build various tools to help model exploring seamlessly on the internet.Exceptional candidates may have:Experience with LLM and information retrieval evaluation data curationExperiences with human/synthetic data generation for RLExperience with AI search or Agentic search systemsStrong engineering abilitiesLocationThe role is based in Palo Alto. Our team usually works from the office 5 days a week but allow work-from-home days when required. Candidates are expected to be located near Palo Alto or open to terview ProcessAfter 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:Coding assessment in a language of your choice.Researcher technical sessions (2): These sessions will be testing your ability to formulate, design and solve concrete problems in real world with LLM. It can be research or engineering, depending on background/experience.Meet the Team: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a small audience.Our goal is to finish the main process within one week. All interviews will be conducted via Google terested in building your career at xAI? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.Apply for this job*indicates a required fieldFirst Name *Last Name *Email *Phone *Resume/CV *Enter manuallyAccepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfWhat exceptional work have you done? *In 100 words or less, tell us about a piece of work you are most proud of.Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B visa) to legally work for X.AI LLC in the U.S.? * Select...Current companyIf you are currently employed in the field, please tell us the name of your employer.If you are currently employed in the field, please tell us your role including your seniority level (e.g. Software Engineer II).LinkedIn ProfileIf you have a public LinkedIn profile, please provide its URL.X ProfileIf you have a public X profile, please provide its URL.If you have a Google Scholar page, please provide its URL. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-21