Software Engineer Media
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build large-scale video services and rebuild core media processing and distribution pipelines. You will optimize end-to-end media quality and performance across video playback, live streaming, audio and video calls, and other user platforms.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience
- Proficiency in high-performance C++ or Go
- In-depth knowledge of WebRTC, LL-HLS, or video transcoding pipelines
- Experience building and operating scalable, resilient distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Build next-generation large-scale video services
- Contribute to and rebuild core media processing and distribution pipelines
- Optimize end-to-end media quality and performance at scale
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Discounts and perks