Backend Engineering Specialist

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October 9

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $45 - $100 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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x.ai

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Artificial Intelligence • API

x. ai is a company focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence technologies, specifically through their Grok language models. They offer an API that allows developers to build on their Grok foundation models, which are characterized by state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. The company is running a public beta program to encourage the use of their API and provides free credits for developers during this period. Their recent release, Grok-2, showcases their cutting-edge advancements in AI language models. x. ai also provides career opportunities for roles related to AI engineering and research, particularly in reasoning and data.

201 - 500 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔌 API

💰 $10M Series B on 2017-08

📋 Description

• As a Software Engineering Specialist on the Human Data team, you'll create cutting-edge datasets for training, benchmarking, and advancing large language models, collaborating closely with technical staff. • You'll support xAI's mission by teaching AI models about human interactions, reactions, and problem-solving approaches through labeling and annotating data in text, voice, and video formats. • This includes curating code examples, providing precise solutions, and making corrections in Python, JavaScript (including ReactJS), C/C++, Java, Rust, and Go; evaluating and refining AI-generated code for efficiency, scalability, and reliability; and working with cross-functional teams to enhance enterprise-level AI-driven coding solutions. • Tasks may involve gathering or providing data, such as recording audio or video sessions, with which candidates must be comfortable to drive innovation.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional back-end development experience. • Proficient in multiple server-side languages (Python, Node.js). • Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints. • Hands-on experience with both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (MongoDB, Redis) databases. • Understanding of database optimization, indexing strategies and query performance. • Deep understanding of web security principles, including authentication, authorization and data protection. • Experience with asynchronous processing and background job systems. • Experience with testing frameworks for unit, integration and end-to-end testing.

🏖️ Benefits

• Hourly pay is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI. • Specific benefits vary by country, depending on your country of residence you may have access to medical benefits. • We do not offer benefits for part-time roles.