Sr. Software Engineer, Data Engineering (X) (AI)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Salary: $180,000–$330,000 USD per year

Company

xAI is building a super-intelligence stack spanning Colossus supercomputers, Grok models, and applications including X.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate production-grade realtime and batch pipelines processing billions of events per day.
• Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products for product, growth, safety, and business teams.
• Build tooling for backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-serve data access.
• Ensure data correctness through output validation, denominator reconciliation, independent recomputation, and root-cause investigations.
• Select and adapt query engines, streaming frameworks, batch systems, and storage technologies for different data challenges.
• Partner with product and business teams to identify data gaps and prioritize high-impact improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Python, Rust, Scala, Go, or Java, plus data pipeline tooling and distributed systems.
• Experience in data engineering or distributed systems.
• Knowledge of realtime and batch processing tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, and SQL, plus relational and NoSQL storage systems.
• Experience solving large-scale problems and incrementally improving quality while building new systems.
• Ability to translate product requirements into engineering implementation plans and communicate effectively with AI, product, marketing, sales, and engineering groups.

Culture & Benefits

• Operate as an internal startup with end-to-end ownership of data problems.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Equity and access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.