Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure Supercompute
xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA · Infrastructure
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.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust.
- Managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Kubernetes
- Pulumi
- Rust and Go
- Flux / ArgoCD
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$180,000 - $370,000 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.
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