Member of Technical Staff - Media at SpaceXAI

Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA

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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. We operate with a flat organizational structure and expect all employees to be hands‑on, contribute directly to the company’s mission, and demonstrate initiative and strong prioritization skills. We are looking for exceptional media engineers to join us on a new project that deeply integrates SpaceXAI’s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by around 600 million users every month, transforming the video product experience across playback, live streaming, and audio/video calls.

Salary

USD 180,000 - 440,000

Requirements

Skills

  • 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

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

Technologies

RustC++GoJavaScalaKubernetesFoundationDBValKeyEnvoyS3H.264H.265AV1MP4CMAFVMAFRTPRTMPLL-HLSHDRDRMWebRTCvideo transcoding pipelinesdistributed systems

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