Staff Engineer, Grok AI Platform

SpaceXSI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 440,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXSI is building Grok, a scalable chat portal, and this Member of Technical Staff role places you on the Grok Main Product team. You will own end-to-end features for a user-facing experience handling tens of thousands of queries per second, collaborating with model and research teams to ship breakthroughs.

You are expected to be sharp, execution-focused, and passionate about AI, delivering delightful, reliable experiences to millions of knowledge workers across domains.

Qualifications

• Proactive self-starter who turns bold ideas into high-impact realities with focused execution.
• Expert in TypeScript, Python, or Rust, with experience crafting clean, maintainable code.
• Skilled in scalable architectures, Kubernetes, observability, and production tuning for performance/reliability.
• Track record shipping consumer-facing products to millions, emphasizing user delight and feedback.
• Passionate about AI's transformative potential and committed to building indispensable tools users rely on daily.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver polished, scalable user-facing features and APIs for Grok's chat experience.
• Innovate on frameworks for rapid experimentation to iterate quickly and keep Grok leading in reasoning and utility.
• Architect high-performance systems for personalized, reliable interactions at global scale.
• Build and optimize data pipelines using real-time user signals to continuously improve the product.
• Own projects from ideation to deployment and monitoring, gathering feedback to refine the seamless portal vision.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Observability

Production tuning

Scalable architectures

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

SpaceXSI is building Grok, a scalable chat portal, and this Member of Technical Staff role places you on the Grok Main Product team. You will own end-to-end features for a user-facing experience handling tens of thousands of queries per second, collaborating with model and research teams to ship breakthroughs.

You are expected to be sharp, execution-focused, and passionate about AI, delivering delightful, reliable experiences to millions of knowledge workers across domains.