xAI
X Developer Platform – Forward Deployed Engineer, X API
New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$440kDetected 1 day ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaRustScalaAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTMachine LearningData AnalysisLLMsAgentic AIAccessibilityProject ManagementResearchLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- With more than 500 million active users and billions of posts per week, X offers robust, real-time and historical data, insights and engagement opportunities across a wide range of organizations and industries.
- Our mission broadly is to achieve the state of X, "The Everything App", and be the clear digital townsquare of Earth.
- We make our ever-expanding universe of social media data available via our extensive API suite with consistent and reliable architecture so the world can realize the full potential of this amazing stream of information.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality sample applications, starter kits, reference implementations, and code examples for both Enterprise teams and Indie developers to accelerate adoption and showcase best practices.
- Build, enhance, and ship developer experience tools such as SDKs, MCPs, CLIs, Sandbox/Test Environments, and other internal/external tooling that dramatically improves developer productivity and ease of use.
- Streamline support processes and create scalable materials that close knowledge gaps and accelerate success for both managed partners and self-serve developers.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of API design principles, REST/GraphQL, real-time streaming systems, authentication, and modern AI/agent workflows.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear, engaging documentation and presentations.
Skills
- Industry experience in social media, enterprise software, data analytics, real-time/streaming data, or related spaces.
- Strong familiarity with Rust, Scala (ideally), or JVM-based programming languages.
- 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
Company info
- We are seeking an exceptional Forward Deployed Engineer who will work at the intersection of deep technical implementation and world-class developer experience.
- Partner directly with Enterprise customers to understand their business needs and rapidly build production-grade solutions, prototypes, integrations, and accelerators using the X API platform.
- Gather real-world feedback from customers and the broader developer community, advocate passionately for their needs internally, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to influence roadmap and feature prioritization.
- X Developer Platform is responsible for the partner ecosystem of B2B and B2C developers that build solutions using X's extensive API set.
- Our team helps collect, process, enrich and deliver hundreds of billions of signals a day through the X API platform.
- Our products are highly available, scalable, optimized, respectful of X's user base, and truly essential for our customers who build their businesses on X data.
- You will work directly with customers while collaborating closely with internal product and engineering teams to drive adoption, reduce friction, and maximize long-term value across the entire developer ecosystem.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
This listing is sourced directly from xAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.