<div class="content-intro"><h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">About xAI</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.</span></p></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><p>We’re seeking exceptional multimedia and Android engineers to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to making Grok's real-time avatar products and mobile experiences the best in the world. You’ll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. An ideal candidate meets at least the following requirements:</p><ul><li>Expert in Kotlin, with deep knowledge of Jetpack Compose and the Android View system.</li><li>Proficient in performance optimization—memory, CPU, GPU—using low-level tools to deliver blazing-fast systems.</li><li>Experienced in designing and shipping intuitive, pixel-perfect mobile UIs that redefine how users interact with AI, driven by a strong sense of product design and user needs.</li><li>Skilled in concurrency and reactive programming (Coroutines, Flow) for responsive, real-time apps.</li><li>Built high-throughput integrations with APIs (REST, gRPC) or AI model outputs, ensuring seamless data flow while aligning with product goals.</li><li>Capable of owning complex features end-to-end, from architecture to Play Store deployment, with a focus on speed, scalability, and delivering measurable user value.</li></ul><p>Additionally, experience in any of the following may set you apart:</p><ul><li>Deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and related development tools (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.).</li><li>Rust for working with our backend components.</li><li>Media3 or ExoPlayer for real-time audio processing.</li><li>A proven track record of shipping standout apps or features that demonstrate both technical excellence and exceptional product intuition.</li></ul><p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p><ul><li>Dream up and craft delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with AI on mobile, balancing technical innovation with a deep understanding of user behavior and needs.</li><li>Obsess over every pixel, animation, and interaction, ensuring the experience feels magical, seamless, and purposeful—delivering joy and utility in equal measure.</li><li>Build blazing-fast, highly performant systems where every millisecond counts, while ensuring the product solves real user problems.</li><li>Drive technical and product decisions, collaborating with AI designers, and engineers to deploy state-of-the-art models globally, with an eye toward maximizing user impact.</li></ul><p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Technically Exceptional</strong>: You possess deep expertise in Android development, particularly with Kotlin. We seek individuals who operate at the highest levels of their craft.</li><li><strong>Efficient</strong>: You excel at delivering results swiftly, often in a fraction of the time others require. Speed is a core value at xAI—we must act decisively to succeed.</li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><strong>Hardworking</strong></li><li><strong>High Agency</strong>: You don’t wait for direction—you take initiative, propose bold ideas, and make things happen, both technically and from a product perspective.</li><li><strong>Product-Minded</strong>: You have a sharp product sense, with an ability to empathize with users, anticipate their needs, and translate that into features that delight and deliver value.</li></ul><p><strong>Location</strong></p><p>You can work out of xAI’s Palo Alto or San Francisco office. </p><p><br><strong>Interview Process</strong></p><p>After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement of exceptional work. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15 minute interview (“phone interview”) during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of 3 technical interviews:</p><ol><li>Coding assessment in a language of your choice.</li><li>Systems hands-on: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session.</li><li>Project deep-dive: Present your past exceptional work to a small audience.</li><li>Meet and greet with the wider team.</li></ol><p>Our goal is to finish the main process within one week. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet.</p><p><strong>Annual Salary Range</strong></p><p>$180,000 - $440,000 USD</p><p><strong>Benefits</strong></p><p>Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>xAI is an equal opportunity employer.</em></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FSvHtuPdDFCaIXqF_zzgez7x5WP3dC8g/view?usp=sharing">California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Notice</a></p></div>