Software Engineer, Imagine Product

The role

You will design, build and scale high-performance systems that power AI-driven media experiences for Grok users. The work covers generation, processing and delivery of images, video and audio in real time.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable systems for Grok's AI-driven media experiences, with high performance, reliability and low latency at global scale
• Architect infrastructure for real-time multi-modal interactions, including generation requests, media processing and integration with frontend and model serving
• Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines for image, video and audio data
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, AI researchers and product teams on media-rich features
• Own full-cycle development: system design, prototyping, deployment, monitoring, observability and refinement
• Deliver production-ready, maintainable code that serves hundreds of millions of users

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping user-facing products
• Must be able to work in person at the Palo Alto, San Francisco, or New York office locations

Nice to have

• 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
• Proficiency in Python or Rust
• Experience designing systems for consumer-facing products with high-throughput workloads
• Hands-on expertise in large-scale data infrastructure and pipelines for multi-modal or media-heavy AI applications
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade solutions to millions of users
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Deep enthusiasm for AI and media technologies

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various other discounts and perks

Before you apply

• In-person work required at the Palo Alto, San Francisco, or New York office locations

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Its teams develop the Colossus supercomputers, Grok models and applications including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice and X.