"Elon Musk is building a recruitment strike force at xAI. The AI startup is hiring a team of "talent engineers" to supercharge its hiring of top engineers as the AI boom fuels a red-hot race for talent. The "small, elite unit" will report directly to Musk and focus on creating "novel approaches" to identify and hire the "absolute best people in the world," according to a job listing posted on xAI's website. Successful applicants need to be comfortable with vibe coding, have a history of building cool products, "even as a kid," and must be a "nerdy engineer" at heart - even though their friends see them as a "people person.""
"The role, which pays $120,000-240,000 and is based in Palo Alto, California, is the latest novel approach taken by AI startups and Big Tech giants to snap up in-demand AI talent. Meta and Google have spent billions on promising AI startups to "acqui-hire" their top engineers and executives, while Sam Altman said in June that Meta offered OpenAI employees a $100 million signing bonus - a figure which a Meta executive later said OpenAI had countered."
"Musk isn't the only top CEO to get personally involved in hiring top talent. OpenAI's chief research officer, Mark Chen, said in December that Mark Zuckerberg attempted to lure some OpenAI engineers to Meta by hand-delivering them soup."
xAI is assembling a small, elite team of "talent engineers" that will report directly to Elon Musk to accelerate hiring of top AI engineers. The unit will develop novel approaches to identify and hire the absolute best people in the world and seeks candidates comfortable with "vibe coding," who have built notable products even as children and who are "nerdy engineers" yet personable. The Palo Alto role pays $120,000–240,000. Major tech firms already spend billions on acquisitions and incentives to secure AI talent, and CEOs have personally intervened in recruitment efforts.
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