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How xAI hires
Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
59 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
57%
Reposted roles
0%
xAI scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 102 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 57% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 59 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
xAI is an American artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2023 with the stated goal of building models that help humans understand the universe. It develops the Grok family of large language models, distributes them through a consumer assistant, a developer API and deep integration with the X social platform, and adds image and video generation through Grok Imagine. The company runs its own Colossus supercomputer clusters in Memphis, Tennessee, is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and merged with X Corp in 2025 to combine model development with a large consumer distribution channel.
News
Grok Build SpaceXAI Docs
Install Grok Build, start an interactive session, use headless mode, and configure custom models.
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Introducing Grok Bot
Grok Bot is your team of always-on agents. They have their own computer, work inside tools and apps like you do, and keep working 24/7.
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Introducing Build Mode
Create and share websites, apps, games, and interactive dashboards. Now in Early Beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers on grok.com, iOS, and Android.
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21 New Flagship Grok Voices
New multilingual voices for Grok Voice, plus improved naturalness for the original five.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at xAI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
190
Postings analysed
169
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python38%
Rust20%
SQL14%
C++12%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch3%
Ray3%
JAX2%
NCCL2%
Databases
PostgreSQL4%
ClickHouse3%
Google BigQuery3%
BigQuery2%
Cloud & platforms
Windows19%
Kubernetes11%
Linux11%
AWS9%
AI & ML
LLM5%
BERT1%
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Full xAI tech stack
190 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$313k
Typical range
$48k – $600k
Open positions
84
58
Jobs
Intern
6.9%
Junior
8.6%
Middle
25.9%
Senior
24.1%
Staff
32.8%
Architect
1.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 4 | $54k | $48k – $60k |
| Junior | 5 | $180k | $72k – $440k |
| Middle | 15 | $258k | $100k – $440k |
| Senior | 14 | $373k | $145k – $440k |
| Staff | 19 | $440k | $150k – $600k |
| Architect | 1 | $280k | $280k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff - Model Training
$600k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at xAI
By role, level and city, against the market · 84 jobs with pay
Products
Grok Imagine
Grok Imagine is xAI's generative image and video tool that produces short animated clips with audio from text prompts. It is bundled into the Grok apps and the X platform.
x.ai
Colossus
Colossus is xAI's supercomputer cluster in Memphis, Tennessee, built around hundreds of thousands of GPUs. It was assembled in an unusually short timeframe and trains the company's frontier models.
x.ai
API
The xAI API gives developers access to the Grok models with function calling, structured outputs and vision inputs. It is offered directly and through cloud model marketplaces.
x.ai
Grok
Grok is xAI's conversational assistant, available on the web, in mobile apps and inside the X platform. It combines a reasoning model with real-time access to public posts and web search.
grok.com
People
Elon Musk
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Elon Musk founded xAI in 2023 and directs its research priorities, compute build-out and integration with X. He also leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
Igor Babuschkin
Co-Founder
Igor Babuschkin co-founded xAI and led much of its early engineering and model training. He previously worked at Google DeepMind and OpenAI and left the company in 2025 to start a venture firm.
Jimmy Ba
Co-Founder
Jimmy Ba co-founded xAI and contributes to its research agenda. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and a co-author of the widely used Adam optimiser.
Toby Pohlen
Co-Founder
Toby Pohlen co-founded xAI and works on its model training and infrastructure. He was previously a research engineer at Google DeepMind.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
240
57 opened / 40 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
67 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Operations
16% ▲
Field & Service
14%
Industrial Engineering
13%
AI/ML
10% ▼
Security
5%
Management
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Operations (+15 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Madrid
Oct 2026
New location: Canada
Oct 2026
New location: Australia
Oct 2026
Added VPN to stack
Oct 2026
Added Proxmox VE to stack
Oct 2026
Added PKI to stack
Oct 2026
Added OpenStack to stack
Oct 2026
Added LDAP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google GKE to stack
Oct 2026
Added CIS Benchmarks to stack
Oct 2026
Added Amazon EKS to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Hillsboro
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
24
Hiring now
15
Countries
12
Busiest office
Palo Alto
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Palo Alto
United States
HQ
Palo Alto, CA
76 open roles 38 posted in 90 days 78% engineering 3% remote 500-1000 est. staff $326k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Security
Memphis
United States
Plant / site
Memphis, TN
132 open roles 112 posted in 90 days 9% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $100k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
Los Angeles, CA
29 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 52% engineering 3% remote 200-500 est. staff $256k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Marketing, Backend
Austin
United States
Regional office
Austin, TX
18 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 6% remote 50-200 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Legal, Management
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
London
11 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 73% engineering 50-200 est. staff $346k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Backend, Mobile
Seattle
United States
Engineering / R&D
Palo Alto, CA
11 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 82% engineering 50-200 est. staff $417k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security, AI/ML
Washington
United States
Engineering / R&D
Washington, D.C.
9 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 78% engineering 11% remote 50-200 est. staff $246k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Legal, Analytics
Dublin
Ireland
Engineering / R&D
Ireland
6 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 50-200 est. staff $95k Avg Salary
hires for Networking, Security, Legal
Tokyo
Japan
Engineering / R&D
Tokyo
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Security, Backend, HR
Singapore
Singapore
Sales office
Singapore
4 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Management, Marketing, Sales
Los Angeles
United States
Sales office
Bastrop, TX
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Marketing, Sales
Toronto
Canada
Sales office
Remote International
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Sales
San Francisco
United States
Regional office
San Francisco, CA
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $150k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
Madrid
Spain
Sales office
Madrid
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Sales
Hillsboro
United States
Plant / site
Hillsboro, OR
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations
Bastrop
United States
Regional office
Bastrop, TX
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Regional office
Dubai
Seoul
South Korea
Regional office
Seoul
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
India
Manila
Philippines
Regional office
Manila
Brussels
Belgium
Regional office
Brussels
Jacksonville
United States
Regional office
Jacksonville, FL
San Jose
United States
Regional office
San Jose, CA
Conroe
United States
Regional office
Conroe, TX
Earlier presence
Atlanta, United States
Jobs
≈ $198k – $384k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Memphis
Python
Java
Rust
C++
NCCL
InfiniBand
NVLink
DevOps
PagerDuty
Prometheus
SLURM
Kubernetes
Grafana
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$198k per year • In office • Palo Alto
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Snowflake
Databricks
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
Looker
Superset
Management
Slack
Jira
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$440k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto • New York
JavaScript
Apache Kafka
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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$258k per year • In office • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto • New York • Washington
Tokenization
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
SOC 2
GDPR
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$258k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Palo Alto
Python
Java
SQL
Scala
MySQL
HBase
Cassandra
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
Vertica
AI/ML
Hadoop
DevOps
Rest API
Kong
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Management
Agile
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$400k per year • In office • 3+ years exp • Palo Alto
Python
Java
Rust
SQL
Scala
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Trino
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Flink
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≈ $213k – $419k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin • Los Angeles • Seattle
NCCL
InfiniBand
NVLink
DevOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
Linux
Apply
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$440k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Palo Alto • New York
Python
Go
Java
Rust
Apply
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Financials
Total raised
$22B
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
3
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | 2025 | $10B | $200B |
| Series C | 2024 | $6B | $45B |
| Series B | 2024 | $6B | $24B |
Key Investors
Qatar Investment Authority
The Qatar Investment Authority took part in xAI's later financings. The sovereign fund invests widely in technology and infrastructure.
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Kingdom Holding Company
Kingdom Holding, the investment vehicle of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, backed xAI's funding rounds. It was also a large shareholder in Twitter before the acquisition.
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Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital joined xAI's early growth financings. The firm invests across the artificial intelligence infrastructure and application stack.
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Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz participated in xAI's Series B and Series C rounds. The firm is among the most active investors in frontier model companies.
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Valor Equity Partners
Valor Equity Partners has led or co-led xAI's largest private financings. The firm has a long history of backing companies founded by Elon Musk.
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