Software Engineer - Infrastructure/Supercomputing

xAI•Palo Alto, CA

23h•Onsite

About The Position

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. Focus 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.

Nice To Haves

Writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust.
Managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries.

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.