Software Engineer, Media
xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA · Palo Alto, CA · Seattle, WA
CHECKED 12H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior$180k–$440k
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