Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal (Audio)

About the Role

The multimodal team at xAI creates magical AI experiences beyond text, enabling the understanding and generation of content across various modalities, including image, video, and audio.

As a member of technical staff, you will drive the model’s multimodal capability through various aspects such as data, modeling, serving, and product. You will collaborate with pre-training, post-training, and product teams to push the frontiers of model capability as well as the end-to-end user experience.

Focus

• Creating and driving a research agenda to advance multimodal audio capabilities, which includes both audio understanding and audio generation.
• Improving data quality, developing data filtering/generation techniques, and conducting data studies.
• Creating evaluation frameworks and internal benchmarks.
• Designing and implementing effective and efficient algorithms for achieving state-of-the-art audio model performance.

Ideal Experience

You're an exceptional candidate if you have some (or all) of the following:

• Track record in leading research that significantly improves the capability and performance of neural networks, whether through better data or better modeling.
• Experience in data-driven experiment designs and systematic analysis for iterative model debugging.
• Experience in developing or working with large-scale distributed machine learning systems.
• Ability to do whatever is necessary to deliver the best end-to-end user experience.

Tech Stack

• Python
• JAX / PyTorch
• Rust

Location

• The role is based in Palo Alto. Our team usually works from the office 5 days a week but allow work-from-home days when required. Candidates are expected to be located near Palo Alto or open to relocation.

Interview Process

After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement of exceptional work. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15-minute interview ("phone interview") during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of four technical interviews:

• One-on-one research discussion & coding interviews (three meetings total)
• Project deep-dive: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a small audience.
• Every application is reviewed by a member of our technical team. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet.

Annual Salary Range

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Benefits

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.