About the role
As a Software Engineer for X Platform, you’ll join the thirty person team responsible for building and scaling X. You will independently own significant parts of the system end-to-end: from intuitive user interfaces to robust backend services, data infrastructure, and deep AI integrations. This is a unique opportunity to impact while creating products loved by 600M+ users globally. You will develop backend services, APIs, and data models for high-volume environments, work with iOS, Android & Web
Requirements
Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems. 2+ years of experience on large scale consumer applications. 5+ years of experience on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions. Strong communication and prioritization skills, hands-on contribution, and engineering
About the company
xAI
This company provides frontier AI models for developers, enabling them to build applications powered by reasoning, code, voice, image, and video generation. Their unified API, trained on a massive supercluster, offers a powerful and versatile platform for integrating advanced AI capabilities into various products and solutions.
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