Jobs at xAI

Analyze firmware and hardware releases for compatibility, security, performance, reliability, and safety. Diagnose intermittent and complex hardware failures, manage vendor RMA claims, collaborate with data center technicians, develop monitoring automation, document reliability metrics and root-cause analyses, and participate in on-call incident response for data center hardware issues.

Designs, builds, programs, troubleshoots, and commissions automated control systems for AI supercomputer campuses. Responsibilities include PLC and HMI development, electrical control panel design, schematics, process simulation, component selection, cabinet and field wiring management, and deployment of BMS, EPMS, SCADA, and PLC systems supporting cooling and electrical infrastructure. The role also manages project schedules and budgets and requires onsite work in Memphis/Southaven with occasional travel and extended hours as needed.

Design, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot highly available, low-latency networks for AI supercomputer campuses. Responsibilities include data-center and campus networking, hardware deployment, network automation, monitoring and telemetry, change management, cluster support, incident response, documentation, fiber infrastructure, segmentation, and cybersecurity compliance. The role provides on-call operational support, collaborates with infrastructure and site teams, supports campus expansions, and requires up to 20% travel, physical site work, and occasional extended hours.

Designs, deploys, and supports highly available OT infrastructure for cooling, power, generation, BESS, and data hall systems. Installs and maintains BMS, EPMS, SCADA, PLC, and HMI platforms; manages upgrades, monitoring, incident response, staging environments, automation, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives. Collaborates with controls, electrical, mechanical, IT, security, facilities, construction, and vendors to build secure, reliable ICS environments. Supports commissioning, cluster expansions, training, on-call operations, and documentation across campus sites.

Design and operate campus-scale reliability systems across compute, networking, storage, power, and cooling. Own monitoring architecture, alert quality, incident command, postmortems, playbooks, game days, dependency mapping, SLOs, and error budgets. Lead cross-functional reliability projects, drive corrective actions to completion, and participate in on-call response for severe incidents at the Memphis/Southaven data center campus.

Designs, deploys, maintains, and troubleshoots advanced audio-visual systems for collaboration spaces, presentation areas, and major events. Partners with construction, Spaceport, and design teams to build immersive environments, while providing technical support for launches, concerts, gatherings, and other high-profile events. Responsibilities include AV, lighting, automation, networking, equipment installation, and ensuring reliable event execution. Requires flexibility for extended hours, weekends, shifts, physical equipment handling, and limited travel.

Supervise IT Services Technicians supporting end users, deploying hardware, resolving complex technical issues, and managing ticket quality. Recruit, train, schedule, and evaluate staff; coordinate IT projects and workloads; improve processes; manage inventory, purchasing, logistics, and vendor relationships; and provide performance reporting. The role is hands-on, requires occasional travel, may involve extended hours or weekends, and includes lifting equipment up to 25 pounds.

Design and deliver scalable data center connectivity and structured cabling plants for large AI and network clusters. Responsibilities include procuring materials, overseeing construction, implementing upgrades, developing deployment procedures, auditing installations, maintaining documentation, troubleshooting ISP circuits and Layer 1 hardware, and coordinating with engineering, construction, operations, and capacity teams. The role requires hands-on data center work, vendor management, standards compliance, and approximately 40% travel.

Design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot advanced audio-visual systems for collaboration, presentation, event, and immersive spaces. Support high-profile events with AV, lighting, automation, broadcast, and conferencing expertise. Collaborate with construction, Spaceport, and design teams; interpret technical drawings; install and terminate cabling; and ensure reliable, user-friendly systems. The role requires physical equipment handling, flexible shifts, extended hours, weekend work, and travel of less than 20%.

Own and grow a portfolio of SMB advertisers and agencies by advising on X advertising products, executing and optimizing campaigns, analyzing performance data, conducting outreach and business reviews, resolving operational issues, and supporting renewals, billing, collections, and contract processes. Collaborate with sales, product, and finance teams while mentoring newer teammates.

Join xAI as a Software Engineer for the X Ads Platform, focused on building and shipping product features across various systems, utilizing AI for advertising improvements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build, operate, and scale distributed data infrastructure (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Trino, HDFS) to enable real-time ML pipelines and analytics at petabyte scale. Design high-throughput, low-latency ingestion and transport, optimize performance, debug distributed systems, and collaborate with ML and product teams to ensure reliable, production-grade data movement and compute.

As a Technical Recruiter, you will actively source, assess, and close technical talent while improving recruiting processes and ensuring excellent candidate experiences.

The Recruiting Coordinator will manage candidate logistics, schedule interviews, ensure data integrity in the system, and maintain exceptional stakeholder relationships.

Provide legal support for large-scale infrastructure development and commercial transactions. Negotiate power, real estate, construction, procurement, financing, leasing, permitting, and project agreements for hyperscale AI data centers. Partner with engineering, finance, procurement, security, and business development teams, while coordinating outside counsel and managing complex transactions under aggressive timelines.

The HR Business Partner supports engineering teams by managing employee relations, performance management, and organizational development, aiding in employee onboarding and career development.

The Power Generation Engineer will oversee natural gas power generation operations, optimizing performance, conducting maintenance, and ensuring compliance for AI datacenter power needs.

Design, build, and optimize massive GPU clusters and low-level CUDA kernels for AI training and inference. Work on Linux kernel internals, virtualization (KVM, Firecracker), custom orchestration, profiling, and infrastructure-as-code to maximize performance and scalability for production AI workloads.

As Engineering Lead for Consumer Subscriptions, you will oversee billing infrastructure, lead a team, and enhance user experiences through effective engineering initiatives.

Design, implement, and operate core networking software for a large-scale GPU datacenter fabric. Develop routing and traffic-engineering algorithms, real-time switch software, prototypes and experiments, deployment and CI tooling, monitoring, and testing to maximize performance and reliability of AI training infrastructure.