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Software Engineer, Imagine Safety
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The Imagine team is redefining AI-driven media experiences for Grok users worldwide. As a Product Safety Engineer on the Imagine team, you will build the critical safety systems and infrastructure that ensure Grok’s multimodal generation capabilities (images, video, audio, and beyond) are powerful, delightful, and responsibly deployed. You’ll design and scale safeguards, detection systems, and evaluation frameworks that prevent harm while preserving creativity and user freedom. Your work will directly shape how millions of users experience generative media — balancing rapid innovation with rigorous safety, trustworthiness, and alignment with SpaceXSI's mission. If you’re a driven engineer passionate about AI safety, content integrity, and building robust systems that protect users without stifling innovation, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact at the frontier of multimodal AI.
$180k - $440k
Software Engineer, Post-Training & RL
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SpaceX is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe, developing the full Super Intelligence stack from supercomputers to large language models and applications. This role focuses on the most critical post-training and reinforcement learning challenges, including reward modeling, preference optimization (RLHF/DPO), and RL for improving reasoning, truthfulness, and real-world capabilities. You will work on cutting-edge AI problems with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
$180k - $600k
Sr. Software Engineer, Multimodal Understanding
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SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe, and you will join the multimodal team to push toward superhuman multimodal intelligence. This role involves advancing understanding and generation across modalities—image, video, audio, and text—spanning the full stack from data curation to end-to-end product experiences. You will collaborate cross-functionally to deliver frontier capabilities in multimodal reasoning, world modeling, tool use, agentic behaviors, and interactive human-AI collaboration, contributing to models that can see, hear, reason about, and interact with the world in real time.
$180k - $440k
Software Engineer, Kernels/CUDA (C++)
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SpaceXSI is building one of the world's largest AI supercomputers from the ground up. As part of the Compute Infrastructure team, you will own both the raw GPU supercomputer and the platform layer that runs on top of it. You will work across the full stack—from low-level GPU kernel optimizations and Linux kernel internals to massive-scale orchestration and virtualization—to make training and inference at SpaceXSI as fast, reliable, and scalable as possible. This is a broad, high-impact role that combines hardcore supercompute and compute infrastructure work. Your contributions will directly accelerate Grok's training speed and overall AI progress.
$180k - $440k
Software Engineer, Imagine Model
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As a multimodal engineer on the Imagine Model Team, you will develop cutting-edge AI experiences beyond text, with a strong focus on enabling high-fidelity understanding and generation across image and video modalities, while also incorporating audio where it enhances visual content. Responsibilities span data curation, modeling, training, inference serving, and product integration, covering both pretraining and post-training phases. You will collaborate closely with product teams to push model frontiers and deliver exceptional end-to-end user experiences.
$180k - $440k
Software Engineer, Voice Model
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You'll join the Grok Voice Model team as a software engineer. You'll design, build, and run the software systems behind Grok Voice, which delivers natural, low-latency, multilingual spoken interactions across devices and in real time. The team owns the full engineering stack behind the model, from large-scale data processing to distributed training to production deployment.
$150k - $450k
Security Engineer, GRC Frameworks & AI Governance
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SpaceXSI is seeking an experienced Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Engineer to scale our security and AI governance compliance posture. This role involves setting organizational standards, designing and implementing controls, and automating compliance processes to enable a fast-moving team to ship safely. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of modern security and AI frameworks, translating control requirements into technical implementations, and partnering with engineers to integrate compliance into architecture and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate across engineering, legal, product, and leadership to ensure our AI systems are audit-ready for enterprise, commercial, and public-sector environments.
$100k - $198k
Software Engineer, RL Training Framework
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The RL infrastructure team is looking for an engineer to help develop our RL training framework. This role involves designing and implementing the systems that support all RL workloads at SpaceXSI, from small-scale experiments to production training runs. You will be responsible for profiling, debugging, and optimizing the end-to-end training performance, as well as improving the scalability and observability of the RL stack.
$180k - $440k
Software Engineer, RL Inference
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SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack, from supercomputers to Grok models and a suite of applications. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next. The RL infrastructure team is looking for an engineer to help with low precision RL training and inference.
$180k - $440k
Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems
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SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. We are seeking exceptional Applied engineers to join a high-priority project that approximately 600 million monthly users use. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals with an engineer or scientist background to apply their skills to recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, search technologies, and many other systems. You’ll work at the intersection of advanced AI development and real-world impact, enhancing the ability to connect users with relevant content, accounts, and experiences.
$180k - $440k
Software Engineer, Training/Inference (C++)
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SpaceXSI is building the high-performance inference platform that serves Grok to millions of users daily with exceptional speed and reliability. As a Member of Technical Staff - Inference, you will be instrumental in designing and optimizing large-scale model serving systems from the ground up. This includes owning distributed infrastructure components like global KV cache, continuous batching, load balancing, and auto-scaling, as well as delving into deep low-level optimizations such as GPU kernels, quantization, and speculative decoding. This is a high-impact role where your contributions will directly influence the speed and reliability of user interactions with Grok at a massive scale.
$180k - $440k
Human Data - Engineer
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SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe, developing the full Super Intelligence stack from supercomputers to large language models and applications. This role is at the intersection of engineering and data operations, focusing on ensuring engineering teams receive high-quality data for training and evaluation. You will partner with model teams, design projects to capture meaningful signals, and drive data yield and evaluation lift, influencing data strategy through hands-on technical work.
$144k - $220k
ML Infrastructure Engineer
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As an ML Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building and optimizing the reliable, high-performance ML platform that powers recommendations on X. We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact.
$180k - $440k
Software Engineer - Evals
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SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe, creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next. You will own and elevate our mission-critical research platform that directly accelerates SpaceXSI's frontier work. The evals team creates and executes instruments for measuring model capabilities and behaviors, used to clean datasets, provide feedback for experiments, and track growth throughout training. We also diagnose why agents fail and how to make improvements, managing execution infrastructure, designing data sets and grading schemes. You will design, build, and ship delightful and bulletproof systems that engineers love to use every day, valuing strong attention to detail, first principles reasoning, and great taste.
$175k - $275k
