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AI Researcher & Engineer - Multimodal (Image Gen)San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA

xAI, Palo Alto, California, United States, 94301

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AI Researcher & Engineer - Multimodal (Image Gen)

The multimodal team at xAI creates magical AI experiences beyond text, enabling understanding and generation of content across various modalities, including image, video, and audio. As a multimodal researcher/engineer, 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 research agenda to advance image and video generation and editing capabilities. Improving data quality, developing data filtering/generation techniques, and performing data study. Creating evaluation frameworks and internal benchmarks. Designing and implementing effective and efficient algorithms for achieving state-of-the-art model performance. Ideal Experiences: Track record in leading research that significantly improves the capability and performance of neural networks, whether 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. Experience in graphics engines and rendering techniques is considered an advantage. Ability to do whatever is necessary to deliver the best end-to-end user experience. 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. Tech Stack: Python Jax Rust 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. 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. Annual Salary Range: $180,000 - $440,000 USD xAI is an equal opportunity employer.