What jobs is xAI hiring for right now?

As of Oct 28, 2026, xAI has 237 open jobs on Alion. 82 of them state a salary (35%). They are posted in 10 cities. 21 allow remote or hybrid work. Its postings score A on the Alion truth index.

Source: Alion Coverage: open vacancies from the employer's own careers board Oct 28, 2026
Open jobs
237
With salary
82 (35%)
Cities
10
Posted in 30 days
51
Median age
70 days

How xAI hires

Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
59 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
55%
Reposted roles
0%

xAI scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 95 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 55% 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

What xAI posted in the last two weeks

Posted in 14 days
17
Busiest day
5 Oct 22, 2026
Days with postings
7 / 14
Oct 15, 2026: 3 posted Oct 16, 2026: 1 posted Oct 17, 2026: 0 posted Oct 18, 2026: 0 posted Oct 19, 2026: 1 posted Oct 20, 2026: 0 posted Oct 21, 2026: 3 posted Oct 22, 2026: 5 posted Oct 23, 2026: 2 posted Oct 24, 2026: 0 posted Oct 25, 2026: 0 posted Oct 26, 2026: 0 posted Oct 27, 2026: 2 posted Oct 28, 2026: 0 posted
Oct 15, 2026 weekend Oct 28, 2026

Which roles xAI is hiring for

175 Jobs
Operations 40 22.9%
Industrial Engineering 33 18.9%
Field & Service 33 18.9%
Backend 27 15.4%
Security 12 6.9%
Other roles 30 17.1%

Where xAI is hiring

xAI hires from 15 offices across 7 countries, holding 304 of its open vacancies between them.

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How the work at xAI is set up

Work format
In office 216 91%
Hybrid 18 8%
Remote 3 1%
Level
Senior 70 35%
Middle 57 29%
Junior 38 19%
Lead 18 9%
Staff+ 10 5%
Intern 4 2%
Head+ 3 2%
Employment
Full-Time 20 69%
Contractor 5 17%
Internship 4 14%

Salaries in xAI vacancies

82 of 237 vacancies state a salary (35%). The range below is built from those 82 stated figures only, never from an estimate.

Lower quartile
$220k
Median
$280k
Upper quartile
$440k
$135k$440k

All salaries at xAI

Open vacancies at xAI

$440k per year · In office · Palo Alto · New York
Rust
Swift
UIKit
SwiftUI
Combine
Reactive Programming
AVFoundation
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Apply
$142k – $349k per year · In office · London
Python
Rust
C++
Reinforcement Learning
DevOps
KVM
QEMU
Windows
Apply
$100k – $258k per year · In office · 3+ years exp · Palo Alto
Python
Go
Rust
Docker
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
OWASP ZAP
SBOM
Apply
$180k – $440k per year · In office · 7+ years exp · Palo Alto
Rust
C++
Recommender Systems
DevOps
Amazon S3
Apply
$180k – $440k per year · In office · Palo Alto
Python
Rust
C++
Grok
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
LLM
Apply
$180k – $440k per year · In office · Palo Alto
Python
Rust
C++
Grok
vLLM
Quantization
JAX
SGLang
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
Apply
$180k – $440k per year · In office · Palo Alto
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
JAX
PyTorch
CUDA
Recommender Systems
Machine Learning
Apply
$180k – $440k per year · In office · 3+ years exp · Palo Alto
Machine Learning
Apply
≈ $153k – $289k per year (Estimated) · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Memphis
AutoCAD
Apply
$180k – $275k per year · In office · 5+ years exp · Palo Alto
A/B Testing
Management
Stripe
Apply
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Questions about jobs at xAI

Is xAI hiring right now?

Yes. As of Oct 28, 2026, xAI has 237 open jobs on Alion.

What roles does xAI hire for?

xAI is hiring mostly for Operations, Industrial Engineering, Field & Service. The largest group is Operations with 40 open vacancies.

How much does xAI pay?

35% of vacancies at xAI state a salary. Across those 82 stated figures the range runs from $220k to $440k, with a median of $280k.

Where does xAI hire?

xAI has open vacancies in 10 places, most of all in Memphis, Palo Alto, New York. It keeps 15 offices with open roles, spread across 7 countries. xAI is run from Palo Alto.

Does xAI offer remote work?

Yes. 21 of the open vacancies at xAI allow remote or hybrid work, which is 9% of the board.

How long have xAI vacancies been open?

Half have been on Alion for 70 days or less. 88 vacancies at xAI have been listed for more than 90 days, and postings of that age are far more often out of date.

How reliable are xAI job postings?

xAI scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 95 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 55% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 59 days.

How do you apply to xAI?

xAI accepts applications through Greenhouse, so the form opens on that system rather than on Alion.

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