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# Events Lead at xAI

- **Company:** xAI
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5287988007

## Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

## EVENTS LEAD

This is a unique opportunity to join a high-output events team focused on events and experiences for SpaceXSI. As an Events Lead, you will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of external facing events, from concept through production and onsite execution. This role is a part of the Events team where you’ll have peers to partner with, learn from, and build together.

The Events Lead will work closely with Growth, Sales, Field Growth, Community and Developer Relations to expand SpaceXSI's reach, build relationships with builders, and drive enterprise awareness, sales and product attachment.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Plan and execute VIP events, special events, 3rd party events, and customer experiences from start to finish, including sourcing and managing event vendors such as venue, transportation, catering, A/V and entertainment
- Develop and manage event agendas, registration, invite lists, and communicate directly with high-level executive customers
- Provide onsite event management, including evening receptions and weekend events
- Ideate and implement creative branding elements, such as décor, interactive activations, themes, and custom elements, to enhance attendee experiences
- Lead administrative tasks for the department, including supply ordering, budget tracking, payment processing, shipping coordination, and inventory oversight with our fulfillment center
- Use AI extensively in the workplace to create efficiencies and automate department processes and workflows to eliminate and streamline the administrative tasks our department must carry as part of event planning
- Work with the Merchandising Team on customer and event gifting and branded décor items
- Work with security teams to facilitate guest security clearances

## BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience in event planning

## PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, event management, hospitality, or related field
- Hands-on experience in all event planning aspects, including but not limited to venue sourcing, event design, vendor procurement, décor, food and beverage, logistics and entertainment
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and have experience building event programs and owning events in fast-paced environments, ideally in tech
- You care deeply about details and craft, and notice things others don’t
- You have strong communication skills to ensure high-quality experiences across multiple programs and teams
- Highly operational focused and can manage multiple complex workstreams, managing agencies and production partners
- Strong proficiency in all Microsoft programs, event diagramming software (Social Tables or similar), event registration platforms (Splash, Eventbrite or similar), SmartSheet or other related organizational tools

## ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

- Must be willing to travel often and work extended hours, including weekends as needed to attend and execute events
- Ability to pass Air Force and NASA background checks for installation access at Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral
- Ability to lift or carry up to 25 lbs unassisted

## COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$125,000 - $150,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, 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. SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our [Recruitment Privacy Notice](https://x.ai/legal/recruitment-privacy-notice).

## About xAI

## Company Overview
- **One‑liner**: xAI builds artificial intelligence systems to accelerate human scientific discovery and “understand the universe,” with products spanning frontier reasoning models, real‑time voice, and generative media.
- **Entity Type**: Private (last funding round: Series E, January 2026; acquired by SpaceX in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA (additional offices in Seattle, WA; Memphis, TN; London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Elon Musk

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Artificial Intelligence (AI research, large language models, voice AI, generative media)
- Target customers: B2B (developers via API), B2C (consumers via Grok on 𝕏, SuperGrok subscriptions), Enterprise & Government (xAI for Government)
- Mission: “To understand the universe” – building AI that extends what humanity can know and do.

## Products & Services
- **Grok (base models)** : A conversational AI assistant modeled after *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*, available on the 𝕏 platform and via API.
- **Grok 4 / Grok 4 Heavy**: The most intelligent reasoning models, featuring native tool use and real‑time search integration (SuperGrok and Premium+ tiers).
- **Grok Voice Agent API / Voice Agent Builder**: Create custom voice agents in under two minutes (no‑code) – includes speech‑to‑text, text‑to‑speech, custom voice cloning, and multilingual support.
- **Grok Imagine API**: State‑of‑the‑art video generation API (quality, cost, latency).
- **Grok‑1.5 / Grok‑2 / Grok‑2 mini**: Earlier model releases with improved reasoning and 128K context length.
- **PromptIDE**: An integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research.
- **xAI for Government**: A suite of frontier AI products tailored for U.S. government customers.
- **Colossus Supercomputer**: 200,000‑GPU cluster built in 122 days, used for training xAI models; now also leased to Anthropic (Colossus 1 agreement).

All products are delivered as SaaS, API, and model weights (open‑source release of Grok‑1).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: 
  - Series B (May 2024): $6 B 
  - Series C (Dec 2024): $6 B (led by A16Z, BlackRock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia, Valor, Vy Capital, others)
  - Series E (Jan 2026): $20 B
  - Acquisition by SpaceX announced Feb 2, 2026 (terms not disclosed).
- **Key Metric**: Total disclosed funding ~$32 B; annual revenue not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: A16Z, BlackRock, Fidelity, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Anthropic (Colossus deal), U.S. Department of War (selected Dec 2025).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Rapid scaling from founding to 200K‑GPU cluster in 122 days.
  - Over 214 open roles listed on Greenhouse as of mid‑2026.
  - #1 on Big Bench Audio (Grok 4 audio performance).
  - Expanded into voice agents, video generation, and government verticals within 3 years.
  - Acquisition by SpaceX signals deep integration with space‑tech resources.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Compute infrastructure**: Colossus supercomputer – one of the largest GPU clusters in existence, enabling faster training and larger models.
- **Model performance**: Grok 4 claims “most intelligent model in the world” with top benchmarks (Big Bench Audio #1).
- **Vertical integration**: Tight coupling with 𝕏 platform for data, distribution, and real‑time world knowledge.
- **Speed of execution**: “Move quickly and fix things” culture; built Colossus in 122 days.
- **Government contracts**: Early access to public‑sector AI markets (U.S. Department of War).
- **Talent density**: Small, focused team of researchers and engineers; in‑person work accelerates iteration.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continue advancing frontier reasoning** (Grok 4 Heavy, next‑gen models).
- **Expand voice and multimodal APIs** for developers (Voice Agent Builder, Custom Voices Library).
- **Deepen government / defense partnerships** (xAI for Government, Department of War).
- **Scale infrastructure** post‑acquisition via SpaceX resources.
- **Remain “open” where strategic** (open‑source release of Grok‑1 weights).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Ambitious goals, fast execution” – rejects consensus in favor of first‑principles reasoning. In‑person work prioritized (Palo Alto, Seattle, Memphis, London).
- **Benefits**: 
  - Competitive cash + equity compensation.
  - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance.
  - 401(k) plan, fertility benefits, flexible vacation.
  - Visa sponsorship offered.
- **Engineering culture**: No recruiters for assessments – applications reviewed directly by technical team. Interview process: application → screening → technical interviews → offer.
- **Mission‑driven**: Opportunity to work on frontier AI models that aim to “advance humanity.”
- **Perks**: In‑person collaboration, fast‑paced environment, ownership of meaningful projects.

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