Sr. Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure is open at xAI in Palo Alto, CA. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $330K. Posted on Jul 20, 2026, and still on xAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, build, and implement a large-scale distributed system that powers one of the world's largest supercomputing clusters Dive into the low-level stack to profile, debug, and optimize performance across diverse systems, including GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems, to achieve peak efficiency Collaborate on hardware, software, and algorithm co-design to push the boundaries of AI training Maintain and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on xAI’s careers page.
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