Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model
xAI· Model
Palo Alto, CA$180k - $440kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Multimodal engineer role focused on image/video (and audio where applicable) understanding, generation, and integration into products. Responsibilities span data curation, modeling, training, inference serving, and product integration across pretraining and post-training phases.
Responsibilities
- Create and drive engineering agendas to advance multimodal capabilities, emphasizing image and video generation, editing, understanding, controllable/long-horizon synthesis, agentic planning, RL training, and world simulation (including audio integration for richer video experiences)
- Improve data quality through annotation, filtering, augmentation, synthetic generation, captioning, and in-depth data studies for visual and audio data
- Design evaluation frameworks, metrics, benchmarks, evals, and reward models tailored to image/video/audio quality and coherence
- Implement efficient algorithms for state-of-the-art model performance, including real-time inference, distillation, and scalable serving for visual content
- Develop scalable data collection and processing pipelines for multimodal datasets (primarily image/video-focused)
- Collaborate cross-functionally to integrate AI solutions into production and rapidly iterate based on user feedback
Qualifications
- Track record in leading studies that significantly improve neural network capabilities and performance through better data or modeling
- Experience in data-driven experiment designs, systematic analysis, and iterative model debugging
- Experience developing or working with large-scale distributed machine learning systems
- Ability to deliver optimal end-to-end user experiences
- Hands-on contributor with initiative, excellence, strong work ethic, prioritization skills, and excellent communication
Skills
Required:multimodal engineeringdata curation and analysis
Benefits
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- short & long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- various other discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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