{"id":986656,"date":"2026-01-20T11:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986656"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:48:22","slug":"elon-musks-xai-is-hiring-an-elite-unit-of-engineers-applicants-should-be-those-who-even-as-a-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/elon-musks-xai-is-hiring-an-elite-unit-of-engineers-applicants-should-be-those-who-even-as-a-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI is hiring an &#8216;elite unit of engineers&#8217;; applicants should be those who &#8216;even as a kid &#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has joined the high-stakes \u2018war for talent\u2019 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 \u201csmall, elite unit\u201d of talent engineers who will be tasked with a single mission: finding and hiring the \u201cabsolute best people in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a job posting, the new team will report directly to Musk. It also outlines an unconventional profile for the ideal candidate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has joined the high-stakes \u2018war for talent\u2019 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 \u201csmall, elite unit\u201d of talent engineers who will be tasked with a single mission: finding and hiring the \u201cabsolute best people in the world.\u201d According to a job posting, the new team will report directly to Musk. It also outlines an unconventional profile for the ideal candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}