About the x.ai team

At x.ai you’ll have an opportunity to work with an inspiring group of highly intelligent, curious, and super-engaged people coming from all walks of life. Our challenge is not easily tackled by mimicking technology that has come before us. We are building something that’s never been built before, and that means the initiatives you’ll take on will push you to your limits. But you’ll have a truly amazing team on your side. Everyone on our team relishes our challenge, and helps each other and learns from each other. If this excites you rather than intimidates you, come join us.

We feel like one of our greatest strengths is the diversity of our team. We come from different countries, technical backgrounds, welcome teammates across the LGBTQ spectrum, have different personalities and perspectives, and we even employ a couple of non-human animals (Lumi and Rupert). This diversity of background leads to diversity of thought, and we nurture it with conviction. The women in our organization meet regularly to discuss issues concerning women in tech, and we have a monthly diversity group workshop to make sure we’re continuing to strengthen our team’s awareness, understanding and engagement with diversity. We’ve had great success with people moving from all over the country to work with us, so if you’re thinking about moving to NYC, you won’t regret it!

About our challenge

At x.ai, we believe everyone deserves a helpful artificial intelligence assistant to give you back the hours spent in meeting scheduling ping-pong. We are building AI personal assistants (Amy and Andrew) that schedule meetings for you. This is a yet unsolved problem within AI, and a formidable technical challenge.

Our team has spent 4 years building the powerful, fundamental technology to allow us to solve the meeting scheduling problem. While we’ll always be working to make Amy and Andrew smarter, our next big challenge is scaling, to make them available to everyone in the world.

About You

You are an enthusiastic engineer who brings with you the experiences you’ve learned building distributed systems in at least one of your previous roles. As a Senior Data Engineer, you care about the system, not the specific languages or technologies used to build it, although in your daily life you may be using Spark, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, or helping us dial in on the right technology to use going forward. You have garnered good judgement and formidable persistence in the face of challenges, always pushing forward to improve our technology in measured steps. You’ve failed and made mistakes, and you’ve learned from those mistakes, giving you invaluable tools for decision making on your future challenges. You can now make high quality decisions quickly and with ample experience to back up your proposals.

You’re humble, collaborative, can push and pull when discussing different approaches to solving problems and most of all, you care deeply about being part of a respectful group of engineers tackling a very difficult problem.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy highly available services and system components that will stand up to rapid growth in the coming years
• Participate in the technical design and implementation of new features and system components
• Articulate capacity and monitoring plans for the services you work on
• Deliver maintainable, well-tested code
• Partner with, teach and learn from other engineers
• Drive scalability and performance within our distributed AI system
• Be an Agile team player

Qualifications

• Experience working on distributed systems with 24/7 availability
• Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that is comfortable with uncertainties
• Experience with MongoDB, high performance NoSQL queries and data transformation jobs
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with Docker
• Bonus: experience with Hadoop, Spark, Machine Learning, Python, Scala, Node.js, AWS

Why x.ai?

• Work with a team of amazing people
• Tackle a problem not solved before
• Self-managed and flexible paid time off - vacation & sick time
• Healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401K
• Gym membership (or activity equivalent) on us
• Team outings, both near and far
• Collaborative work spaces
• Weekly catered team dinners and a steady flow of coffee & beer
• Your own personal assistants, Amy and Andrew