Model Engineer, Voice

Xai · Palo Alto, CA · Engineering

Posted 2026-11-07

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MODEL ENGINEER, VOICE

You'll join the Grok Voice Model team as a software engineer. You'll design, build, and run the software systems behind Grok Voice, which delivers natural, low-latency, multilingual spoken interactions across devices and in real time. The team owns the full engineering stack behind the model, from large-scale data processing to distributed training to production deployment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design, build, and maintain large-scale distributed data pipelines that ingest, process, and annotate real-world and synthetic audio, so the training and evaluation systems get reliable, high-quality data

Build and optimize the distributed training infrastructure and software for speech-language models in JAX and PyTorch, including the systems that run supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning at scale

Build automated evaluation and testing systems that measure accuracy, audio quality, latency, and real-time performance, plus the experimentation infrastructure used to validate every model release

Integrate voice models into production applications and real-time services, write the technical specifications for spoken interactions, and own deployment from prototype to global scale with a focus on stability, low latency, and reliability

Profile and optimize system performance across training and inference, including throughput, latency, memory use, and compute efficiency

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or another engineering discipline

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

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Experience building and running large-scale distributed training and inference systems on Kubernetes

Expert-level Python, writing clean, efficient, production-quality code for large-scale systems

Experience implementing and optimizing model training and inference software in JAX or PyTorch

Experience building automated testing, evaluation, and A/B experimentation pipelines for production systems

Hands-on experience building distributed data processing systems with tools like Spark and Ray

A proactive, self-driven attitude and the ability to deliver in a fast-paced, high-caliber team

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$160,000 - $250,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, 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.

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