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xAI Posted 3d ago

Sr. Model Engineer, Post-Training & RL

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$180–600k

Gross per year

Experience

Senior

Senior level

Job summary

Responsibilities

You will work on the most critical post-training and reinforcement learning challenges at any given time — including reward modeling, preference optimization (RLHF/DPO), and RL for improving reasoning, truthfulness, and real-world capabilities.

  • Design and run rigorous experiments that turn research ideas into measurable gains in model capability
  • Improve model recipes through data quality, deduplication, and mixture experiments
  • Define what makes RL data and rewards good, including grader design and preventing reward hacking
  • Advance training science, from architecture and scaling experiments to post-training recipes for coding and computer-use agents
  • Build evals and targeted tasks that expose model weaknesses and guide where the team invests next

What they're looking for

  • Experience writing production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++
  • Experience training large models (e.g., pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, or RL training of neural networks with 1B+ parameters)
  • You believe truth-seeking AI is the most important and challenging problem
  • You are obsessed about building incredibly useful models through post-training and RL techniques
  • You are a power user of AI models and eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible with reinforcement learning and alignment methods

Tech stack

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