Member of Technical Staff Multimodal Understanding
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will advance multimodal understanding and generation across image, video, audio, and text. You will build and optimize distributed training, inference, tokenization, and data systems; develop evaluations and research tooling; and enable real-time multimodal reasoning, tool use, and agentic behaviors.
Requirements
- Experience with multimodal pre-training, post-training, or fine-tuning.
- Expert proficiency in Python.
- Experience with JAX, PyTorch, or XLA.
- Experience building or optimizing large-scale distributed ML systems.
- Experience designing and running large-scale data pipelines.
- Knowledge of evaluation design, benchmarks, reward modeling, or reinforcement learning techniques.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize distributed systems for multimodal training, inference, data processing, and tokenization.
- Develop high-throughput pipelines for multimodal data acquisition, preprocessing, filtering, generation, and management.
- Advance multimodal understanding, generation, alignment, world modeling, and reasoning capabilities.
- Drive data curation, filtering, quality studies, and scalable pipelines.
- Create evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, reward models, and metrics.
- Innovate on algorithms, modeling approaches, co-design, and scaling paradigms.
- Build research tooling, interfaces, prototypes, demos, and full-stack applications.
- Enable reasoning, tool calling, agentic behaviors, orchestration, and real-time interactions.
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Discounts and perks
