Software Engineer Infrastructure Supercomputing

xAI
📍 Palo Alto
3d

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 engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

Tech Stack

  • Kubernetes
  • Pulumi
  • Rust and Go
  • Flux / ArgoCD

Location

The role is based in the Bay Area [San Francisco and Palo Alto]. Candidates are expected to be located near the Bay Area or open to relocation.

Focus

  • 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.

Ideal Experiences

  • Writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust.
  • Managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries.

Interview Process

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