xAI
Software Engineer, Ads Product
$150K–$350K
Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Jun 1, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; software-building experience may come from internships, projects, research, open-source work, startups, or full-time roles.
About the job
Build and improve X Ads products and large-scale systems for ad delivery, targeting, optimization, measurement, and advertiser experience.
What you'll do
- Build and ship features across the X Ads Platform, including AI-powered improvements.
- Contribute to reliable, fast, scalable distributed systems and maintain production systems.
- Collaborate with engineers, product leads, and cross-functional partners to deliver products.
What they ask for
- Experience building software through internships, projects, research, open-source work, startups, or full-time roles.
Nice to have
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, problem-solving skills, and ability to learn codebases quickly.
- Experience with ads or related systems, large-scale backends or data pipelines, or the listed technologies and AI/ML methods.
Pay
$150,000 - $350,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
React, Golang, Python, Rust, gRPC, Java, Scala
AI focus
Use AI capabilities to improve advertising product performance and quality; the posting also mentions AI applications, machine learning, LLMs, ranking, and optimization systems.
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