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Software Engineer, Media

xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA · Palo Alto, CA · Seattle, WA

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Frontier labonsitesenior$180k–$440k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Transform video playback, live streaming, Spaces and calls for 600M users.
  • Build next-generation large-scale video services from the ground up.
  • Obsess over every millisecond and pixel of end-to-end media quality.

What they offer

  • equity
  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance

Ideal candidate

A performance-obsessed media engineer with 5+ years building distributed systems who thrives in flat, hands-on teams and cares deeply about pixel-perfect video quality at massive scale.

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

Lab profile

About xAI

Builds AI systems to understand the universe and advance human knowledge.

Known for

  • Engineering excellence focus
  • Large-scale data center operations
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