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About this role

xAI is hiring a staff-level Staff Engineer in the software engineering function based in London, United Kingdom. The posting calls out experience with Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, Distributed Systems, Data Structures.

Role
Staff Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
London, United Kingdom
Department
Model

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Job description

from xAI careers

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 Member of Technical Staff, you will build frameworks to improve the reasoning capability, build distributed reinforcement learning systems, techniques for inference time compute (e.g. tree search and planning), and develop environments for agents.

You will get exposure and will be expected to solve and take ownership of components across the entire stack.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Build robust and scalable distributed RL systems.
  • Optimise frameworks to enable complex inference-time reasoning.
  • Develop environments and harnesses for agents.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Experienced with large-scale reinforcement learning systems.
  • Designing and implementing distributed systems.
  • This is an excerpt. Read the full job description on xAI careers →
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