Founded: 2023 by Elon Musk
Mission: Understand the Universe
Flagship product: Grok (chatbot, APIs, Grok Imagine)
Reported total funding (per evidence): ~$37.134B (USD) aggregated / multiple large rounds including $6B Series C
Headcount (reported): 4,886 employees
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Advanced AI research and developer/consumer AI products
2023
Technology, Information and Internet
$6,000,000,000
Announced $6B Series C; reporting tied round participants and valuation context.
$20,000,000,000
Company announced it raised $20B in a Series E.
$10,000,000,000
Reported combined $10B in debt and equity.
“Participation from large institutional and strategic investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), BlackRock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Nvidia and others as reported.”
About xAI
xAI’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 individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.
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.
All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
About xAI
xAI’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 individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. 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. All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
About the Role
As a Medicine Specialist, you will be instrumental in enhancing the capabilities of our cutting-edge technologies by providing high-quality input and labels using specialized software. Your role involves collaborating closely with our technical team to support the training of new AI tasks, ensuring the implementation of innovative initiatives. You'll contribute to refining annotation tools and selecting complex problems from advanced Medical fields where your expertise can drive significant improvements in model performance. This position demands a dynamic approach to learning and adapting in a fast-paced environment, where your ability to interpret and execute tasks based on evolving instructions is crucial.
The Medicine Specialist role is a remote position and there are full-time and part-time positions available (please see the bottom of this job description for more details).
Medicine Specialist’s Role in Advancing xAI’s Mission
As a Medicine Specialist you will play an essential role in advancing xAI's mission by supporting the training and refinement of xAI’s AI models. Medicine Specialists teach our AI models about how people interact and react, as well as about how people approach issues and discussions. To accomplish this, Medicine Specialists will actively participate in gathering or providing data, such as text, voice, and video data, sometimes providing annotations, recording audio, or participating in video sessions. We seek individuals who are comfortable and eager to engage in these activities as a fundamental part of the role, ensuring a strong alignment with xAI’s goals and objectives to innovate.
Scope
A Medicine Specialist will provide services that include labeling and annotating data in text, voice, and video formats to support AI model training. At times, this may involve recording audio or video sessions, and Medicine Specialists are expected to be comfortable with these tasks as they are fundamental to the role. Such data is a job requirement to advance xAI’s mission, and Medicine Specialists acknowledge that all work is done for hire and owned by xAI.
Responsibilities:
Key Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional Requirements:
Location, Hourly, and Other Expectations:
This position is fully remote.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
If you are based in the US, please note we are unable to hire in the states of Wyoming and Illinois at this time.
Compensation and Benefits:
xAI is an equal opportunity employer.
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You must own and have reliable access to a smartphone.
Please indicate your interest in either full-time, part-time, or either in the application. Note that:
Part-Time (20-29 hours per week): While hours are flexible around your schedule, you must be committed to working at least 20 hours per week (with at least 10 of these hours worked on weekdays) and no more than 29 hours per week.
Full-Time (40 hours per week): Ideal full-time schedules are 9-5:30pm in your local time zone. However, flexible hours can be be offered.