Elon Musk’s xAI is hiring an ‘elite unit of engineers’; applicants should be those who ‘even as a kid …’

Elon Musk has joined the high-stakes ‘war for talent’ with Facebook-parent Meta, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, among others. The Tesla CEO is said to be taking a personal interest in recruitment for his artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI. The company has announced that it is hiring a “small, elite unit” of talent engineers who will be tasked with a single mission: finding and hiring the “absolute best people in the world.”

According to a job posting, the new team will report directly to Musk. It also outlines an unconventional profile for the ideal candidate.