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Software Engineer - X Data Engineering

SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for indivi

Company

xAI

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-12T07:52:08+00:00

xAI's X product engineering team is hiring a data engineer for a distributed data platform running hundreds of realtime and batch pipelines that process billions of events daily. The role covers building pipelines and shared datasets, tooling for backfills, dashboards and reporting, and owning data correctness. It asks for 3+ years of software engineering experience, Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink and SQL. The team owns its problems end to end and works with product, AI, legal, finance and sales groups.