Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, xAI, is recruiting a crypto quantitative expert, an operational move amid its merger with SpaceX into a single entity valued at a reported $1.25 trillion.
The job listing seeks a specialist to generate training data that will teach the company’s AI models the intricacies of digital asset markets, from derivatives trading to onchain analytics. The role is structured as a work-for-hire arrangement, with outputs owned by xAI.
According to the job description, the “crypto expert” will supply annotated data, evaluations, and step-by-step reasoning to train frontier models. The scope encompasses generating data across text, voice, and video formats, with a focus on quantitative strategies such as cross-exchange arbitrage, DeFi protocol analysis, MEV-aware execution, and portfolio management in 24/7 trading environments.
xAI asked potential candidates to hold a master’s or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent professional experience, and to demonstrate familiarity with data platforms such as Dune Analytics, Glassnode, Nansen, and DefiLlama, to be considered for the role.
Hiring push follows SpaceX combination
This recruitment effort comes as Musk announced the combination of SpaceX and xAI. In a blog post on Monday, he described the merged company as “the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet.” Public records from the state of Nevada, obtained by CNBC, show the deal was completed on Feb. 2.
The merger joins two of Musk’s most valuable private companies. He founded SpaceX in 2002 and launched xAI in 2023. SpaceX opened a secondary share sale last year at an $800 billion valuation. Earlier this year, xAI closed a $20 billion funding round that valued it at approximately $230 billion. The combined company is expected to price shares in an anticipated IPO that would value it at $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reported.
The tie-up brings xAI’s infrastructure under the same corporate umbrella as SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, which currently operates more than 9,000 satellites. The structural alignment coincides with Musk’s stated objective to develop orbital data centers, citing a target for space-based AI compute within the next two to three years.
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