X Developer Platform – Forward Deployed Engineer, X API

Exceptional coding proficiency in two or more languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, etc.) with a proven track record of shipping production-quality software, sample apps, prototypes, and developer tools.

Strong understanding of API design principles, REST/GraphQL, real-time streaming systems, authentication, and modern AI/agent workflows.

Hands-on experience building developer-facing assets: sample applications, reference implementations, DevEx tools, and high-quality technical documentation/guides.

Deep, genuine passion for developer experience (DevEx) — you instinctively identify friction and love removing it through better docs, tools, and accessible APIs.

5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (partner engineering, solutions architecture, developer relations, forward-deployed engineering, or similar) working directly with enterprise customers.

Strong attention to detail and a solution-oriented mindset that turns customer problems into scalable improvements.

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

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X Developer Platform is responsible for the partner ecosystem of B2B and B2C developers that build solutions using X’s extensive API set.

With more than 500 million active users and billions of posts per week, X offers robust, real-time and historical data, insights and engagement opportunities across a wide range of organizations and industries.

Our API gives you the ability to learn from and engage with the conversation on X and we supply developers with the tools to further uncover, build on, and share the value of this conversation with the world.

Our mission broadly is to achieve the state of X, “The Everything App”, and be the clear digital townsquare of Earth.

We make our ever-expanding universe of social media data available via our extensive API suite with consistent and reliable architecture so the world can realize the full potential of this amazing stream of information.

Our team helps collect, process, enrich and deliver hundreds of billions of signals a day through the X API platform.