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Sr. Software Engineer, Media

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Company

xAI

Location

Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA

Status

Open

Posted

2025-07-30T19:59:28+00:00

xAI is hiring media engineers for a project that folds the company's AI infrastructure into a video platform used by roughly 600 million people a month. The work covers video playback, live streaming, Spaces and audio/video calls: rebuilding media processing and distribution pipelines in Rust, C++, or Go, with close attention to latency, quality and performance at scale. The posting asks for five or more years of experience, proficiency in high-performance C++ or Go, and in-depth knowledge of WebRTC, LL-HLS or video transcoding. Pay is listed at $180,000–$440,000.