Senior Model Engineer Reinforcement Learning Training Framework

19 hours agoSeniorSalary: 180K - 400KPalo Alto, USAAiJobs by SpaceXAI

SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.

Austin, United States
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.

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About the Role

You will design and implement systems that support reinforcement-learning workloads, profile and debug end-to-end training performance, and improve the scalability and observability of the reinforcement-learning stack.

Requirements

  • Production-quality programming in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++
  • Experience training large models, including pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning training of neural networks with more than 1 billion parameters
  • Large-scale distributed systems
  • Large-scale LLM training infrastructure
  • Reinforcement learning numerics
  • Reinforcement learning techniques

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement systems that support reinforcement learning workloads from small ablations to production training runs
  • Profile, debug, and optimize end-to-end training performance
  • Improve the scalability and observability of the reinforcement learning stack

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Comprehensive medical coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Discounts and perks