Role Details

Location

London, UK

Salary (est. USD)

~$180K - $280K (est. USD)

Estimated based on role seniority, company stage (Series B), and industry benchmarks. Actual compensation may vary.

How is this calculated?

Seniority band Staff / Principal

Base range $180K – $280K

Based on Web3 & AI industry compensation data. Seniority is inferred from role title keywords. Company stage affects ranges: early-stage (−15%), late-stage/public (+10%).

Department

Infrastructure

Type

Full-time

Vertical

AI

Posted

1 week ago

Hiring Manager

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Job Description

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.