Software Engineer Infrastructure Supercomputing
2025-12-13
xAI
About xAI
xAIâs 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 companyâs mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
Tech Stack
Kubernetes
Pulumi
Rust and Go
Flux / ArgoCD
Location
The role is based in the Bay Area [San Francisco and Palo Alto]. Candidates are expected to be located near the Bay Area or open to relocation.
Focus
Operating some of the worldâs 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.
Ideal Experiences
Writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust.
Managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries.
Interview Process
After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement...Please mention the word **ENHANCES** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.
xAIâs 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 companyâs mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
Tech Stack
Kubernetes
Pulumi
Rust and Go
Flux / ArgoCD
Location
The role is based in the Bay Area [San Francisco and Palo Alto]. Candidates are expected to be located near the Bay Area or open to relocation.
Focus
Operating some of the worldâs 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.
Ideal Experiences
Writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust.
Managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries.
Interview Process
After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement...Please mention the word **ENHANCES** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.