Mobile Android Engineer
xAI is seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. In this role, you will shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time.
Key responsibilities include developing high-performance native Android applications using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, implementing real-time speech, audio, and video streaming capabilities for multimodal AI interactions, and building efficient interfaces to backend AI services, optimizing for latency and responsiveness. You will also own the full mobile lifecycle from development through deployment, monitoring, and iteration, collaborate with design to create intuitive UI that showcases advanced AI capabilities, and champion Android development best practices including testing, code quality, and accessibility. Additionally, you will optimize performance at every level of the stack—UI rendering, network calls, background processing, and power consumption.
The ideal candidate is proficient in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and reactive programming, with a strong product sense and high craft bar, capable of building intuitive and delightful user experiences. You should have experience in architecting modern large production apps while embodying technical excellence, a strong sense of ownership and agency, able to put on multiple hats and take responsibility for large areas, and the ability to optimize for performance, stability, and reliability.
Preferred qualifications include a proven track record of shipping standout apps or features that demonstrate both technical excellence and exceptional product intuition, deep expertise in the Android ecosystem and related development tools (Android Studio, Gradle, etc.), and experience with Rust for working with backend components.
xAI offers a competitive annual salary range of $180,000 to $440,000 USD. The total rewards package also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.