AI Engineer (Vision) - Enterprise

Job Description

xAI is seeking an AI Engineer to work directly with enterprise customers, focusing on Vision or Video Understanding integrations. The ideal candidate will act as a specialized AI startup CTO, leading high-stakes projects and delivering measurable impact in the Vision domain. This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise and customer-focused innovation.Responsibilities:

• Designing and building end-to-end AI solutions, from understanding customer pain points to deploying VLM-powered vision interfaces.
• Benchmarking vision models and analyzing performance to identify weaknesses in image recognition, object detection, or visual understanding.
• Improving model performance through system prompt tuning and fine-tuning VLMs.
• Working with multimodal teams to generate data for research efforts.
• Building internal tools to automate VLM workflows, such as image processing pipelines or real-time visual analysis.
• Defining critical benchmarks for Vision or Video Understanding performance.
• Initiating human data collection.
• Driving Vision model integration with enterprise partners.

Requirements:

• Strong engineering background.
• Experience interfacing between technical and customer-facing teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to translate business and vision-specific product needs into technical solutions.
• Proven experience implementing VLM or machine learning products, including APIs, back-end, and front-end vision interfaces.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of HTTP protocol and real-time communication protocols (e.g., WebRTC for video streaming).

Benefits:

• Competitive cash-based compensation
• xAI equity
• Private health and dental insurance
• Unlimited time off subject to prior approval