We're looking for a highly skilled Member of Technical Staff to join our team at xAI. As a key member of our team, you will design, build, and optimize integrations between xAI's frontier models and international government systems, platforms, and data environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and optimize integrations between xAI's frontier models and international government systems, platforms, and data environments
• Develop secure, scalable solutions for use cases such as policy analysis, edtech, scientific research support, public health modeling, regulatory workflows, and citizen-facing services across diverse global contexts
• Collaborate on custom SDKs, APIs, developer tools, and documentation tailored for international government and enterprise developers
• Partner with international agency stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate rapidly based on real-world feedback, including during on-site assignments
• Contribute to safe deployment practices, including red-teaming, bias evaluation, output filtering, and explainability features for high-stakes non-classified applications in varied regulatory landscapes
• Fine-tune and adapt xAI models for specific international government use cases, incorporating custom guardrails and evaluation frameworks to ensure alignment with mission objectives and ethical guidelines
• Ship production-grade code and features with a bias toward speed, simplicity, and measurable impact

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications (strong Python proficiency required; other languages a plus)
• Experience fine-tuning AI models for government or mission-critical use cases, including building evaluations and ensuring safety and performance
• Experience deploying complex AI and data systems in sovereign environments, ensuring compliance with international regulations for technology and AI in government or public sector settings
• Willingness and ability to undertake travel and international assignments to regions such as the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East and potentially more.
• Strong product sensibility: ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete technical solutions
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code under tight timelines
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity,you thrive on hard, ambiguous challenges
• Excellent communication skills; you can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical partners clearly and concisely

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Prior work on AI safety, governance, red-teaming, or responsible AI deployment
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), or API orchestration
• Background in policy-adjacent technical roles, civic tech, or public-interest technology with an international focus
• Contributions to open-source AI projects or developer tools

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