Analytics Engineer (X)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Base salary: $140,000–$225,000 USD per year

Company

xAI is building Super Intelligence systems across supercomputing infrastructure, Grok models, and applications including X.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and optimize end-to-end pipelines for high-volume data using Spark, Kafka, and/or Flink.
• Develop quantitative models and statistical frameworks for experimentation, forecasting, and performance measurement.
• Build data infrastructure that maintains quality, consistency, and accessibility for analytical workflows.
• Translate business requirements into production-grade data systems and insights in collaboration with product engineering, product, and operations.
• Conduct A/B tests, causal analysis, and performance evaluations to improve key metrics.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, automation, and mentoring practices for scalable data engineering and quantitative problem-solving.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, or another quantitative field.
• 2+ years of experience building production data pipelines and infrastructure at scale.
• Experience with Python, SQL, and distributed computing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Hadoop.

Nice to have

• Expertise in statistical methods, predictive modeling, hypothesis testing, and experimental design.
• Understanding of cloud services for data storage, processing, and orchestration.
• Experience in consumer technology or social media.
• Experience with real-time streaming systems and low-latency data processing.
• Contributions to open-source data tools or publications on large-scale analytics systems.
• Experience reducing operational costs or improving system efficiency through data optimizations.
• Ability to combine engineering excellence with rigorous analytical approaches.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-critical systems support quantitative decision-making at global scale.
• Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.
• Equal opportunity employer.