Senior Media Engineer — High-Performance Video & AI

Xai; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 440,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

SpaceXAI is seeking exceptional media engineers to deeply integrate its AI infrastructure into a platform used by hundreds of millions of users monthly. Join a small, hands-on team building video playback, live streaming, Spaces, and calls, while delivering low-latency, high-quality media across devices.

You will work with Rust, C++, or Go to advance core media pipelines, striving for millisecond-level responsiveness and robust distributed systems across a global user base.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in media or video systems.
• Strong proficiency in C++ or Go for high-performance systems.
• Experience with WebRTC, LL-HLS, or video transcoding pipelines.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build the next generation of large-scale video services.
• Rebuild core media processing pipelines in Rust, C++ or Go.
• Ensure end-to-end media quality and performance across platforms.

Skills

C++/Go

Media pipelines

WebRTC/LL-HLS

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

FoundationDB

Envoy

S3

ValKey

Job description

SpaceXAI is seeking exceptional media engineers to deeply integrate its AI infrastructure into a platform used by hundreds of millions of users monthly. Join a small, hands-on team building video playback, live streaming, Spaces, and calls, while delivering low-latency, high-quality media across devices.

You will work with Rust, C++, or Go to advance core media pipelines, striving for millisecond-level responsiveness and robust distributed systems across a global user base.