Member of Technical Staff (Media)

Requirements At least 5 years of experience Obsessed with media quality, performance, and product 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 What the job involves We’re looking for exceptional media engineers who want to join us on a new project to deeply integrate xAI’s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month We’re bringing xAI’s technology stack and using it to transform the video product experience - video playback, live streaming, Spaces, audio/video calls, and more. This is your chance to contribute in a major way while leveraging all of the powerful AI tools and talented colleagues at xAI 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 every millisecond and pixel, ensuring end-to-end media quality and performance at scale across a rich suite of products and user platforms Tech Stack: Go, C++, Rust, Java, Scala Kubernetes, FoundationDB, ValKey, Envoy, S3 H.264, H.265, AV1, MP4, CMAF, VMAF, RTP, RTMP, LL-HLS, HDR, DRM #J-18808-Ljbffr