xAI hires crypto specialists to train artificial intelligence models on digital assets

In the job posting, xAI wrote that the work centers on producing high-quality annotations, evaluations and expert reasoning using proprietary labeling tools, with tasks developed alongside engineers and researchers. The scope includes quantitative crypto topics such as on-chain analysis, decentralized finance protocols, perpetual futures and derivatives trading, cross-exchange arbitrage, market microstructure in fragmented venues, and MEV-aware execution.

xAI said the role is intended to generate training data across text, voice and video, including detailed annotations, critiques of model outputs, step-by-step reasoning traces, audio explanations of strategies and occasional structured video sessions. The posting also notes that contributors may be asked to provide mathematical derivations, code snippets and alternative approaches as part of model review.

The position is fully remote. xAI listed a compensation range of $45 to $100 per hour for U.S.-based candidates, with pay varying by experience and location, and said it does not offer visa sponsorship. The company also wrote that new hires are expected to work 9:00am to 5:30pm Pacific Time for the first two weeks of training and then 9:00am to 5:30pm in their own timezone, and noted it cannot hire in Wyoming and Illinois.

As GNcrypto wrote on 21 November 2025, xAI chatbot Grok posted a series of exaggerated praises of Elon Musk after a Grok 4.1 update, with several replies later removed, and Musk attributed the episode to adversarial prompting. The report said executives in crypto and AI renewed calls for decentralized systems to reduce bias and governance risks, pointing to projects such as Ocean Protocol, Fetch.ai and Bittensor and distributed compute providers including Aethir and NetMind.AI.