Member of Technical Staff - Model Evaluation

xAI•Palo Alto, CA 94301, US• Full Time

Posted 2 months ago• Mechanical

Compensation

$180,000–$440,000/year

Job Description

About xAI

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.

Responsibiities

Provide complete assessment of models.
Deep dive into model training and data to identify the weakness point revealed in evaluation.
Communicate with modeling and data team to come up with plans to improve model quality.

Required Qualifications

Model assessment and evaluation task development (including public and in-house benchmarking).
Collect data and synthesize data for new evals.
Build infrastructure and framework for easy-to-use model evaluation, familiarity with inference frameworks like SGlang and vLLM.

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.

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