xAI
Human Data Engineer
$144K–$220K
Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of experience may substitute for the degree; no other years requirement stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a STEM discipline; or 4+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.
About the job
Develops and delivers human-data projects, tools, and evaluations that improve training data quality and model performance.
What you'll do
- Partner with model and engineering teams to define data projects and evaluation strategies, and own their end-to-end delivery.
- Build measurement tools, conduct evaluations, and maintain data quality and factual integrity.
- Improve data collection, annotation workflows, and multimodal integration to shape Grok’s behavior and domain performance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a STEM discipline; or 4+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
- Experience analyzing datasets for trends, anomalies, quality issues, or integrity problems.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or higher in a relevant technical field.
- Experience with AI/ML training or evaluation datasets, annotation workflows, multimodal data, model evaluations, Python, or SQL.
Pay
$144,000 - $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Grok, Python, SQL
AI focus
Human-data collection, annotation, and evaluation to improve AI model training, quality, truthfulness, alignment, and multimodal performance.
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