AI Media Engineer: Real-Time Multimodal (Onsite)

SpaceX Super Intelligence; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Vision & Dental Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Discounts & Perks

Job summary

SpaceXSI is seeking a Software Engineer for the Imagine Product to build and scale high-performance, AI-driven media experiences that power Grok across the globe. You will work on end-to-end systems for generation, processing, and streaming of multimodal content, collaborating with researchers, frontend engineers, and product teams.

You will own full development cycles, from design to deployment, with a focus on reliability, low latency, and scalability to serve millions of users in real-time.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping user-facing products.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable systems to support Grok's AI-driven media experiences, ensuring high performance, reliability, and low-latency at global scale.
• Architect robust infrastructure for real-time multi-modal interactions, including handling generation requests, media processing, and seamless integration with frontend and model serving layers
• Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines to ingest, process, and analyze multi-modal data (images, video, audio), fueling continuous improvement and personalization of Grok's media capabilities
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, AI researchers, and product teams to deliver captivating, media-rich features and end-to-end user experiences
• Own full-cycle development of solutions: from system design and prototyping to deployment, monitoring, observability, and iterative refinement
• Deliver production-ready, maintainable code that powers features reaching hundreds of millions of users

Skills

Real-time systems

Inference serving

Multi-modal data processing

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Observability

Python

Rust

High-throughput workloads

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

SpaceXSI is seeking a Software Engineer for the Imagine Product to build and scale high-performance, AI-driven media experiences that power Grok across the globe. You will work on end-to-end systems for generation, processing, and streaming of multimodal content, collaborating with researchers, frontend engineers, and product teams.

You will own full development cycles, from design to deployment, with a focus on reliability, low latency, and scalability to serve millions of users in real-time.