Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Understanding (Visual / Audio)

Focus

• Creating and driving engineering agenda to toward superhuman multimodal capabilities, which include both multimodal understanding and multimodal generation, across different modalities including image, video and audio.
• Improving data quality, developing data filtering/generation techniques, and performing data study, on pretraining scale.
• Creating evaluation frameworks and internal benchmarks.
• Designing and implementing effective and efficient algorithms for achieving state-of-the-art model performance.

Ideal Experience

• Hands-on experience on visual, audio or multimodal pretraining.
• Track record in leading engineering that significantly improves the capability and performance of neural networks, whether better data or better modeling.
• Experience in data-driven experiment designs and systematic analysis for iterative model debugging.
• Experience in developing or working with large-scale distributed machine learning systems.
• Ability to do whatever is necessary to deliver the best end-to-end user experience.

Tech Stack

• Python
• Jax
• Rust

Interview Process

After 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 ("intro call") during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the initial , you will enter the main process, which consists of four technical interviews:

• One-on-one engineering discussion & coding interviews (three meetings total)
• Meet the Team: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a small audience.

Every application is reviewed by a member of our technical team. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet.

Location

The role is based in the New York area. Candidates are expected to be located near the New York City area or open to relocation.

Annual Salary Range

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Benefits

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.