Tech Stack
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
AI @ 3
Data Pipelines @ 3
Distributed Systems @ 2
Kubernetes @ 2
Observability @ 2
Python @ 6
Rust @ 6
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
The Imagine Product team is redefining AI-driven media experiences for Grok users worldwide. This role focuses on building and scaling robust, high-performance systems for immersive, multimodal media interactions, including the generation, processing, and delivery of images, video, audio, and other media. The work will support real-time user experiences and turn advanced multimodal models into production-grade consumer AI features.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable systems for Grok's AI-driven media experiences, ensuring high performance, reliability, and low latency at global scale.
- Architect infrastructure for real-time multimodal interactions, including generation requests, media processing, and integration with frontend and model-serving layers.
- Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines to ingest, process, and analyze multimodal data, including images, video, and audio.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers, AI researchers, and product teams to deliver media-rich features and end-to-end user experiences.
- Own the full development lifecycle, from system design and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, observability, and iterative refinement.
- Deliver production-ready, maintainable code for features reaching hundreds of millions of users.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python or Rust, with a strong track record of writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Experience designing and building systems for consumer-facing products, with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and high-throughput workloads.
- Hands-on expertise in large-scale data infrastructure and pipelines, particularly for multimodal or media-heavy AI applications.
- Proven ability to deliver robust, production-grade solutions to millions of users while maintaining high standards of quality and uptime.
- Strong problem-solving skills and enthusiasm for AI and media technologies.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with real-time systems, inference serving, or multimodal data processing at scale.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, containerization such as Kubernetes, observability tools, or performance tuning for AI workloads.
- Background in AI-driven consumer products or media generation technologies.
- Experience collaborating across engineering, research, and product teams to ship features quickly.
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Various discounts and perks
SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer.
More jobs at SpaceXAI
Human Data - Business Operations Analyst
SpaceXAI · Palo Alto, United States
USD 122,000-180,000 per year
Program Manager, Harmful Activity
SpaceXAI · New York City, United States, Palo Alto, United States, Bastrop, United States
USD 110,000-145,000 per year
Human Data Manager
SpaceXAI · Palo Alto, United States
USD 100,000-186,000 per year
Analytics Engineer - X
SpaceXAI · Palo Alto, United States
USD 180,000-440,000 per year
Research Analyst
SpaceXAI · United States, New York City, United States
USD 129,600-158,400 per year
Similar jobs
Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)
Anthropic · New York City, United States, San Francisco, United States, Seattle, United States
USD 320,000-485,000 per year
Senior Storage Software Engineer, DGXC Data Services
Nvidia · Santa Clara, United States
USD 152,000-287,500 per year
Principal Engineer, AI Tooling and Workflows
Nvidia · Santa Clara, United States
USD 272,000-431,200 per year
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems)
Anthropic · London, United Kingdom
GBP 325,000-390,000 per year
Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment
Anthropic · New York City, United States, San Francisco, United States, Seattle, United States
USD 320,000-485,000 per year
Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference
Anthropic · New York City, United States, San Francisco, United States, Seattle, United States
USD 320,000-485,000 per year
Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability
Anthropic · New York City, United States, San Francisco, United States
USD 320,000-485,000 per year
Forward Deployed Engineer - Physical AI Cloud Platform
Nebius · United States, Austin, United States
USD 179,500-224,300 per year