# Member of Technical Staff -  Media

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4805874007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c4495b98-541

## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- high-performance C++ or Go
- WebRTC or LL-HLS or video transcoding pipelines
- building and running scalable and resilient distributed systems

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