Imagine Product

xAI • Palo Alto, CA

44d

About The Position

The Imagine Product team is redefining AI-driven media experiences for Grok users worldwide. In this role, you’ll build and scale robust, high-performance systems that power immersive, multi-modal media interactions—leveraging cutting-edge AI to enable seamless generation, processing, and delivery of images, video, audio, and beyond. Your work will drive engaging, real-time user experiences that captivate and delight millions, turning advanced multimodal models into production-grade features. If you’re a driven problem-solver passionate about AI, media technologies, and creating scalable solutions that shape the future of consumer AI, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

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 emphasis on performance, reliability, and handling high-throughput workloads.
• Hands-on expertise in large-scale data infrastructure and pipelines, particularly for multi-modal 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 a passion for turning innovative ideas into high-impact, scalable realities.
• Deep enthusiasm for AI and media technologies, with a commitment to building user-focused products that inspire and engage.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with real-time systems, inference serving, or multi-modal data processing at scale.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes), observability tools, or performance tuning for AI workloads.
• Background in AI-driven consumer products or media generation technologies.
• Track record collaborating across engineering, research, and product teams to ship delightful features quickly.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable systems to support Grok's AI-driven media experiences, ensuring high performance, reliability, and low-latency at global scale.
• Architect robust infrastructure for real-time multi-modal interactions, including handling generation requests, media processing, and seamless integration with frontend and model serving layers.
• Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines to ingest, process, and analyze multi-modal data (images, video, audio), fueling continuous improvement and personalization of Grok's media capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, AI researchers, and product teams to deliver captivating, media-rich features and end-to-end user experiences.
• Own full-cycle development of solutions: from system design and prototyping to deployment, monitoring, observability, and iterative refinement.
• Deliver production-ready, maintainable code that powers features reaching hundreds of millions of users.

Benefits

• Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed