Member of Technical Staff - Media

We're seeking exceptional media engineers to join our team on a new project to deeply integrate xAI's advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a major project while leveraging xAI's powerful AI tools and talented colleagues.

Responsibilities:

• Build the next generation of large-scale video services
• Contribute to and rebuild core media processing and distribution pipelines in high-performance languages (Rust, C++ or Go)
• Ensure end-to-end media quality and performance at scale across a rich suite of products and user platforms

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience
• Proficient in high-performance C++ or Go
• In-depth knowledge of either WebRTC or LL-HLS or video transcoding pipelines
• Familiar with building and running scalable and resilient distributed systems

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Go, C++, Rust, Java, Scala
• Kubernetes, FoundationDB, ValKey, Envoy, S3
• H.264, H.265, AV1, MP4, CMAF, VMAF, RTP, RTMP, LL-HLS, HDR, DRM

Compensation and Benefits: $180,000 - $440,000 USD Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, 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.