FORWARD DEPLOYED AI ENGINEER

xAI
Full-time
San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA; London, UK
$180,000 - $440,000
Posted on 6 months ago

Job Description

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer in the GTM team, you will work on critical product integrations for our most important partners and other high-impact initiatives, owning strategy and execution alongside our end customers. This senior-level role combines hands-on technical expertise with a startup-like mindset, akin to an AI startup CTO.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver end-to-end solutions that meet customer needs
  • Work on frontend/backend integration
  • Add logging/metrics for user activity and retention
  • Benchmark models or help write evals for customers
  • Improve model performance through system prompt tuning or fine-tuning models
  • Analyze request logs or read through prompt data
  • Fix miscellaneous API bugs
  • Build internal tooling to automate repetitive tasks
  • Improve xAI SDKs or developer documentation

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Great verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
  • Proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end, and front-end interfaces
  • Experience in Rust, Python and/or TypeScript
  • Understanding of the HTTP protocol
  • Strong engineering background

Benefits

  • No benefits