Member of Technical Staff - Media

🏢 Summary: Media engineering role focused on building and optimizing large-scale video services integrated with advanced AI infrastructure for a platform serving hundreds of millions of users. The position involves rebuilding media processing and distribution pipelines using high-performance languages and improving video quality, streaming, and real-time communication systems at scale. Candidates should have strong distributed systems experience and deep expertise in modern media technologies. 🗂️ Requirements: 5+ years of experience, Proficiency in C++ or Go, Knowledge of WebRTC, LL-HLS, or video transcoding pipelines, Experience with scalable distributed systems, Strong media quality and performance optimization skills, Strong communication skills 📃 Skills: Go, C++, Rust, Java, Scala, Kubernetes, FoundationDB, ValKey, Envoy, S3, WebRTC, LL-HLS, H.264, H.265, AV1, MP4, CMAF, VMAF, RTP, RTMP, HDR, DRM 🏢 Description: SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: 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. 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 every millisecond and pixel, ensuring end-to-end media quality and performance at scale across a rich suite of products and user platforms BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: - 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 PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: - Go, C++, Rust, Java, Scala - Kubernetes, FoundationDB, ValKey, Envoy, S3 - H.264, H.265, AV1, MP4, CMAF, VMAF, RTP, RTMP, LL-HLS, HDR, DRM COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: - $180,000 - $440,000 USD - Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. Equal opportunity employer. Recruitment Privacy Notice available.

🏢 Summary: Software Engineer role focused on building and scaling a high-volume consumer platform with end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI integrations. The position involves developing distributed systems, microservices, analytics, and real-time features for products used by hundreds of millions of users. Candidates should have experience with large-scale applications, low-latency systems, and modern backend technologies. 🗂️ Requirements: 2+ years experience with large-scale consumer applications, Proficiency in distributed systems, Experience with high-scale low-latency environments, Experience with backend services and APIs, Experience with high-volume streaming systems, Strong communication skills, Ability to work in high-concurrency environments 📃 Skills: Rust, Go, Python, Java, APIs, Microservices, iOS, Android, Web, AI, Streaming, Analytics 🏢 Description: SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Software Engineer for X Product/Platform, you'll join the thirty person team responsible for building and scaling X. You will be tasked with independently owning significant parts of the system end-to-end: from intuitive user interfaces to robust backend services, data infrastructure, and deep AI integrations. This is a unique opportunity to impact while creating products that are loved by 600M+ users globally. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments. - Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products. - Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms. - Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics. - Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems. - Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: - Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems. - 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: - 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: - $180,000 - $440,000 USD - Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view the Recruitment Privacy Notice.

🏢 Summary: Software Engineer role focused on building scalable data platforms and pipelines for AI model training, including data acquisition, preparation, orchestration, monitoring, and quality evaluation. The position involves collaborating with ML and data teams to develop reliable systems that support large-scale training workflows and improve model performance. 🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, or related field OR 2+ years of professional software experience, 1+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, data engineering, or data science, Experience with programming languages such as Python, Rust, Java, C#, Scala, or Go, Experience with frontend frameworks such as Angular or React, Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments, Experience with relational and non-relational databases, Understanding of version control, testing, CI/CD, deployment, and monitoring, Understanding of statistics and machine learning frameworks 📃 Skills: Python, Rust, Java, C#, Scala, Go, Angular, React, Kubernetes, Ray, PostgreSQL, Iceberg, Clickhouse, Grafana, Superset, CI/CD, Docker, SQL, MachineLearning 🏢 Description: ABOUT THE ROLE: At xAI, we are building AI systems that push the frontier of human knowledge and scientific discovery. High-quality data is fundamental to every stage of that mission. Our Data team is responsible for ensuring that the models are trained on the right data, in the right form, at the right quality, across every phase of the training lifecycle. This includes partnering closely with acquisition teams to identify where valuable data can be sourced, determining what data is needed to improve model performance, and building the production pipelines and systems that transform raw inputs into high-quality training data at scale. We work at the intersection of software, data, infrastructure, and machine learning to ensure our models train effectively and reliably. As a Software Engineer on xAI's Data team, you will be responsible for developing applications that power data acquisition, preparation, training, quality evaluation, and delivery for model training. You will provide the ability to run training in a reliable, scalable and repeatable manner. You will also provide visibility on training status and data lineage. You will work closely with acquisition teams, ML engineers, and data engineers to build a reliable data pipeline to run training at scale. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent coding practices. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform to orchestrate data acquisition, preparation, training, quality evaluation, and delivery for model training - Create new features such as data lineage, visibility, and monitoring for end-to-end training that improve the quality of the data and model performance - Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews - Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints - Own all aspects of software engineering and product development - Deep dive into business problems, find efficient solutions and apply first principles thinking BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: - Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree - 1+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: - Programming experience in Python, Rust, Java, C#, Scala, Go or similar languages - Frontend experience in Angular, React, or similar JavaScript frameworks - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments - Experience with Ray, AI training and orchestration - Experience with relational and non-relational databases, data lakes e.g. PostgreSQL, Iceberg, Clickhouse, or similar - Experience with data exploration tools like Grafana, Superset, or similar - Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring - Good understanding of statistics, machine learning algorithms and frameworks COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: - $150,000 - $250,000 USD - Base salary is part of a total rewards package that includes equity, medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, disability insurance, life insurance, and additional perks.

🏢 Summary: Data Engineer role focused on building and operating large-scale realtime and batch data platforms that process billions of events daily. The position involves developing distributed data pipelines, analytics infrastructure, and internal data products while collaborating across product, AI, and business teams. Candidates should have strong experience in distributed systems, data processing frameworks, and backend programming languages. 🗂️ Requirements: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, Experience in data engineering or distributed systems, Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, Knowledge of Spark, Knowledge of Kafka, Knowledge of Flink, Knowledge of SQL, Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL storage systems, Experience solving large-scale engineering problems, Ability to translate product requirements into engineering implementation plans, Strong cross-functional communication skills 📃 Skills: Python, Rust, Scala, Go, Java, Spark, Kafka, Flink, SQL, BigQuery, Trino, Clickhouse, Scalding, RDBMS, NoSQL 🏢 Description: SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Data Engineer in X product engineering team, you will play a key role in providing comprehensive data solutions that own or serve a wide range of stakeholders, including our end-users and internal teams such as Product engineering, Algorithm, Legal, Finance and Sales. Our work utilizes AI, distributed computing and hybrid storage technologies, but extends beyond purely data-centric solutions, encompassing non-data-related challenges, ultimately maximizing the potential of data for the benefit of our diverse user base. RESPONSIBILITIES: You'll help build and operate a distributed data platform that powers hundreds of realtime and batch pipelines processing billions of events per day. The team runs like an internal startup — we own problems end to end, from raw event streams to the datasets, tooling, and metrics that product, growth, safety, and business teams depend on daily. In this role you will: - Design, build, and operate production-grade realtime and batch pipelines that ingest, process, validate, and deliver data powering user-behavior insights and product decisions. - Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products that let other teams analyze, debug, and improve product performance. - Prototype and build tooling that automates and accelerates internal data workflows — backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-serve access to data. - Own data correctness end to end: validate with output invariants, denominator reconciliation, and independent recomputation, and lead root-cause investigations when key metrics move unexpectedly. - Move fluidly across query engines and frameworks (e.g., BigQuery, Trino, Clickhouse for analytics; Flink, Kafka, Spark/Scalding for streaming and batch), choosing the right tool and adapting quickly to new infrastructure and environments. - Partner across product and business teams to surface where data gaps exist and prioritize the highest-impact opportunities for new data acquisition and improvement. - Iterate quickly on feedback, shipping the smallest useful increment with a strong bias toward efficient, accurate, and reliable solutions. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: - 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in data engineering or distributed systems. - Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and data pipeline tooling and distributed systems. - Knowledge of realtime and batch data processing tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, SQL and various storage systems in RDBMS and NoSQL. - Experience solving large scale problems and building new systems for future quality improvements. - Proven ability to interpret product requirements into engineering implementation plans. - Effective communication skills across AI, product, marketing, sales, and engineering teams. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: - $125,000 - $400,000 USD base salary - Equity package - Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage - 401(k) retirement plan - Short and long-term disability insurance - Life insurance - Additional discounts and perks SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. 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🏢 Summary: Applied Engineer role focused on building and scaling recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, and AI-driven search technologies for products serving hundreds of millions of users. The position involves developing machine learning infrastructure, real-time experimentation, and large-scale deep learning applications using modern AI frameworks and data systems. 🗂️ Requirements: Knowledge of Kafka, Clickhouse, and Spark, Experience implementing recommender systems at industrial scale, Experience with deep learning applications at industrial scale, Proficiency in JAX or PyTorch, Ability to design scalable machine learning systems, Strong communication skills, Hands-on engineering approach 📃 Skills: Kafka, Clickhouse, Spark, JAX, PyTorch, CUDA, Python, AI, ML 🏢 Description: SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: We're seeking exceptional Applied engineers to join a high-priority project that approximately 600 million monthly users use. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals with an engineer or scientist background to apply their skills to recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, search technologies, and many other systems. You'll work at the intersection of advanced AI development and real-world impact, enhancing the ability to connect users with relevant content, accounts, and experiences. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Designing and architecting recommendation algorithms across various product surfaces - Leverage all of xAI's infra and AI stacks to dramatically enhance the user experience - Write data pipelines and training jobs that continuously learn from product data - Iterate and improve the algorithm by gathering user feedback in real time through experimentation - Ensuring scalability and efficiency of machine learning systems BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: - Knowledge of data infrastructure like Kafka, Clickhouse, and Spark - Experienced in implementing recommender systems and/or deep learning applications at industrial scale - Skilled in one or more DL software frameworks such as JAX or PyTorch - Exceptional candidates may be experienced in writing CUDA kernels COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: - $180,000 - $440,000 USD - Base salary is one part of the total rewards package and includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and additional discounts and perks. SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view the Recruitment Privacy Notice.

🏢 Summary: Role for an exceptional software engineer to tackle the company’s highest-priority AI and technical challenges in a hands-on, high-performance environment. The position emphasizes engineering excellence, initiative, strong communication, and alignment with truth-seeking AI research. Compensation includes high base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. 🗂️ Requirements: Exceptional software engineering skills, Strong communication skills, Ability to work hands-on on critical technical challenges, Experience thriving in meritocratic environments, Strong prioritization and initiative, Interest in truth-seeking AI systems 📃 Skills: AI, Software, Engineering 🏢 Description: ABOUT THE ROLE: You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. You will get clarity on your first project before an offer. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: • You believe truth-seeking AI is the most important and challenging problem. • You take pride in your work and thrive in meritocratic environments. • You are an exceptional software engineer. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: • $180,000 - $440,000 USD • Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. • Equal opportunity employer.

🏢 Summary: Opportunity for an exceptional software engineer to work on high-priority AI product and technical challenges in a hands-on, fast-paced environment focused on truth-seeking AI. The role offers direct impact, a meritocratic culture, and clarity on the initial project before hiring. 🗂️ Requirements: Exceptional software engineering skills, Strong communication skills, Ability to work hands-on in a flat organizational structure, Strong prioritization and work ethic, Interest in truth-seeking AI, Ability to thrive in meritocratic environments 📃 Skills: AI, Software, Engineering 🏢 Description: ABOUT THE ROLE: You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. You will get clarity on your first project before an offer. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: You believe truth-seeking AI is the most important and challenging problem. You take pride in your work and thrive in meritocratic environments. You are an exceptional software engineer. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $180,000 - $440,000 USD Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. Equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view the Recruitment Privacy Notice.

🏢 Summary: Role for an exceptional software engineer focused on solving the company’s highest-priority AI and technical challenges in a hands-on, fast-paced environment. The position emphasizes engineering excellence, initiative, strong communication, and work on truth-seeking AI systems. Compensation includes high base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. 🗂️ Requirements: Exceptional software engineering skills, Strong communication skills, Ability to work hands-on in a flat organizational structure, Strong prioritization and work ethic, Interest in truth-seeking AI, Ability to thrive in meritocratic and high-performance environments 📃 Skills: AI, Software, Engineering 🏢 Description: ABOUT THE ROLE: You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. You will get clarity on your first project before an offer. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: • You believe truth-seeking AI is the most important and challenging problem. • You take pride in your work and thrive in meritocratic environments. • You are an exceptional software engineer. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: • $180,000 - $440,000 USD • Base salary is just one part of the total rewards package, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. • Equal opportunity employer. • Recruitment Privacy Notice available for data processing details.

🏢 Summary: The role involves tackling the company’s highest-priority product or technical challenges in a hands-on engineering environment focused on truth-seeking AI. Candidates are expected to be exceptional software engineers who thrive in meritocratic, high-performance teams with strong communication and prioritization skills. 🗂️ Requirements: Exceptional software engineering skills, Strong communication skills, Ability to work hands-on in a flat organizational structure, Strong prioritization skills, Ability to thrive in meritocratic environments, Interest in truth-seeking AI challenges 📃 Skills: AI, Software, Engineering 🏢 Description: SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. ABOUT THE ROLE: You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. You will get clarity on your first project before an offer. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: You believe truth-seeking AI is the most important and challenging problem. You take pride in your work and thrive in meritocratic environments. You are an exceptional software engineer. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: $180,000 - $440,000 USD Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks. Equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view the Recruitment Privacy Notice.

🏢 Summary: High-impact engineering role focused on building and optimizing large-scale AI inference systems for serving Grok at massive scale. The position involves distributed infrastructure, GPU-level optimization, inference acceleration, and reliability engineering for high-concurrency production environments. Candidates will work end-to-end on scalable model serving, CI/CD infrastructure, and next-generation inference optimization. 🗂️ Requirements: Deep low-level systems programming in C/C++ or Rust, Experience with large-scale high-concurrency production serving, Experience with GPU inference engines, Strong background in batching, caching, load balancing, and parallelism, Experience with GPU kernels and code generation, Knowledge of quantization, speculative decoding, distillation, and low-precision numerics, Experience with testing, benchmarking, and reliability of inference services, Experience designing and implementing CI/CD infrastructure for inference 📃 Skills: C++, Rust, vLLM, SGLang, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, GPU, CI/CD, Quantization, Distillation, Caching, Batching, Parallelism, Load-balancing, Autoscaling 🏢 Description: SpaceXAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates. About the Role: We are building the high-performance inference platform that serves Grok to millions of users every day with lightning speed and perfect reliability. As a Member of Technical Staff - Inference, you will design and optimize large-scale model serving systems end-to-end. You will own everything from distributed infrastructure (global KV cache, continuous batching, load balancing, auto-scaling) to deep low-level optimizations (GPU kernels, quantization, speculative decoding, tail latency). This is a high-impact role where your work directly determines how fast and reliably users interact with Grok at massive scale. Responsibilities: - Architect and implement scalable distributed infrastructure for model serving (load balancing, auto-scaling, batch scheduling, global KV cache). - Optimize latency and throughput of model inference under real production workloads. - Build reliable, high-concurrency serving systems that serve billions of users with 100% uptime, 0% error rate, and excellent tail latency. - Benchmark, fine-tune, and accelerate inference engines (including low-level GPU kernel work and code generation). - Develop custom tools to trace, replay, and fix issues across the full stack — from orchestration down to GPU kernels. - Create robust CI/CD infrastructure for seamless endpoint deployment, image publishing, and inference engine updates. - Accelerate research on scaling test-time compute, RL rollout, and model-hardware co-design for next-generation systems. Basic Qualifications: - Deep low-level systems programming (C/C++ or Rust) - Experience with large-scale, high-concurrent production serving - Experience with GPU inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, etc.) - Strong background in system optimizations: batching, caching, load balancing, parallelism - Low-level inference optimizations: GPU kernels, code generation - Algorithmic inference optimizations: quantization, speculative decoding, distillation, low-precision numerics - Experience with testing, benchmarking, and reliability of inference services - Experience designing and implementing CI/CD infrastructure for inference Compensation and Benefits: - $180,000 - $440,000 USD - Equity compensation - Medical, vision, and dental coverage - 401(k) retirement plan - Short and long-term disability insurance - Life insurance - Additional discounts and perks SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.