xAI
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety
Palo Alto, CA · Staff+
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$7,075 more — $187,075 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- The Imagine team is redefining AI-driven media experiences for Grok users worldwide.
- Your work will directly shape how millions of users experience generative media - balancing rapid innovation with rigorous safety, trustworthiness, and alignment with xAI's mission.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable safety systems for Grok's media generation platform, including real-time content moderation, risk detection, and safeguard enforcement for images, video, and audio.
- Build infrastructure to measure, monitor, and mitigate safety risks such as harmful content, bias, deepfakes, intellectual property issues, and misuse at global scale.
- Develop tools, pipelines, and evaluation frameworks that enable rapid iteration on safety policies in collaboration with researchers, product, and policy teams.
- Own full-cycle development of safety features: from problem definition and prototyping to deployment, monitoring, incident response, and long-term refinement.
- Partner closely with the Imagine engineering, research, and product teams to embed safety into core features and deliver delightful yet responsible user experiences.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Rust, with a strong track record of writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
Skills
- Experience with multimodal content safety (images, video, audio) or generative AI safety in production environments.
- Familiarity with machine learning classifiers, safety evaluation, red-teaming, or adversarial testing for media generation models.
- Background in distributed systems, real-time inference serving, Kubernetes, observability tools, or large-scale data infrastructure.
- Track record collaborating across engineering, research, and policy teams to ship safety-critical features quickly and effectively.
- Previous work on content moderation, anti-abuse, model alignment, or responsible AI at consumer AI products.
- This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.
- All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission.
- Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important.
- All employees are expected to have strong communication skills.
- They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
Compensation
- $180,000 - $440,000 USD
Equal opportunity
- xAI is an equal opportunity employer.
This listing is sourced directly from xAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.