# Model Engineer, Multimodal Understanding at xAI

- Company: xAI
- What the company does: SpaceXAI builds Grok — frontier AI models for reasoning, voice, image generation, and more. Build with the Grok API. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and a16z.
- Company website: https://x.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5286976007?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/xai-model-engineer-multimodal-understanding/

## About the role

You will join the multimodal team to push toward superhuman multimodal intelligence. Advance understanding and generation across modalities—image, video, audio, and text—spanning the full stack: data curation/acquisition, tokenizer training, large-scale pre-training, post-training/alignment, infrastructure/scaling, evaluation, tooling/demos, and end-to-end product experiences. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience writing production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++

Tags: Model

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/xai-model-engineer-multimodal-understanding/