xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The Member of Technical Staff - Media role focuses on building and improving large-scale media services that integrate xAI’s advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by 600 million users. The position involves developing high-performance media processing pipelines, ensuring optimal quality and performance, and collaborating with a small, highly motivated engineering team committed to excellence and innovation.
Member of Technical Staff - Media at xAI
Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA
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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
- Go
- C++
- Rust
- Java
- Scala
- Kubernetes
- FoundationDB
- ValKey
- Envoy
- S3
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- MP4
- CMAF
- VMAF
- RTP
- RTMP
- LL-HLS
- HDR
- DRM
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++GoWebRTCLL-HLSvideo transcoding pipelinesKubernetesFoundationDBValKeyEnvoyS3H.264H.265AV1MP4CMAFVMAFRTPRTMPHDRDRM
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