x.ai, an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant (NYC)
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Web Application and Backend Engineers
At x.ai, we are a venture backed startup located in New York City.  We are building a software that schedules meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone.  We are looking for smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individuals to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future.  You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed.
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A Web Application Engineer will
Evolve Human-Machine interaction to improve data collection for our information-hungry AI
Develop clever ways to capture both implicit and explicit human preferences
Participate in design and implementation of new features
Evolve frontend architecture
Integrate with various external APIs
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A Backend Engineer will
Build, evolve and scale out infrastructure to ingest, process and extract meaning out of free form text
Jump between architecture, implementation, infrastructure management, and firefighting
Design and build a system that enables seamless human-machine interactions
Solve various optimization and constraint problems related to coordinating people’s schedules and preferences
Integrate with various external APIs
Constantly improve our development processes and tools to reduce friction from idea to deployment
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