Senior Media Engineer - Large-Scale Video & AI Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Equity

Job summary

SpaceXAI in Palo Alto is seeking experienced media engineers to help integrate our AI-driven media stack into a platform used by hundreds of millions of users each month. You will contribute directly to an ambitious project that touches video playback, live streaming, Spaces, and collaborative media features.

We value hands-on contributors who optimize for millisecond-level performance, build scalable distributed systems, and collaborate with talented engineers to push the boundaries of media

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with media processing or large-scale media systems.
• Proficiency in high-performance languages (C++, Go, Rust).
• Experience with WebRTC, LL-HLS, or video transcoding pipelines.

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).
• Obsess over end-to-end media quality and performance across products and platforms.

Skills

C++

Go

Rust

Java

Scala

Tools

Kubernetes

FoundationDB

ValKey

Envoy

S3

Job description

SpaceXAI in Palo Alto is seeking experienced media engineers to help integrate our AI-driven media stack into a platform used by hundreds of millions of users each month. You will contribute directly to an ambitious project that touches video playback, live streaming, Spaces, and collaborative media features.

We value hands-on contributors who optimize for millisecond-level performance, build scalable distributed systems, and collaborate with talented engineers to push the boundaries of media