Staff Engineer, AI Media Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

401(k)

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

SpaceXSI is seeking a passionate Member of Technical Staff for the Imagine Product in Palo Alto. You will design and scale AI-driven media systems powering Grok experiences, handling real-time multi-modal generation, processing, and delivery to millions of users.

You will own end-to-end delivery, collaborate with frontend engineers, researchers and product teams, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure for low latency and high reliability in a consumer-ready product.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python or Rust with clean, scalable code.
• Experience building systems for consumer AI/media products.
• Hands-on data pipelines for multi-modal data at scale.
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade solutions to millions.
• Strong problem-solving and user-focused mindset.
• Passion for AI and media technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable systems for AI-driven media experiences.
• Architect real-time multi-modal infrastructure with low latency.
• Build large-scale data pipelines for processing media data.
• Collaborate with frontend, research, and product teams.
• Own end-to-end development from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Deliver robust code powering hundreds of millions of users.

Skills

Python

Rust

Data pipelines

High performance

Multi-modal

Tools

Kubernetes

Observability tools

Containerization

Model serving

Job description

SpaceXSI is seeking a passionate Member of Technical Staff for the Imagine Product in Palo Alto. You will design and scale AI-driven media systems powering Grok experiences, handling real-time multi-modal generation, processing, and delivery to millions of users.

You will own end-to-end delivery, collaborate with frontend engineers, researchers and product teams, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure for low latency and high reliability in a consumer-ready product.