Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.
Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you.
As a Software Engineer on Knowledge Systems, you’ll help build systems that understand what is true about the world. You’ll work on extracting, connecting, retrieving, and reasoning over knowledge from the web and beyond so AI agents can answer questions with unprecedented precision and completeness.
You have experience building and maintaining complex distributed backend systems
You can build data pipelines that process petabytes of documents, metadata, and unstructured data
You’re comfortable optimizing systems for correctness, reliability, and scale
You care deeply about data quality and finding high-quality information
Plus: experience building systems involving graph traversal, entity resolution, data quality, or truth discovery
Build a system that can answer every factual question about every person in the world
Design a new query language for searching, traversing, and reasoning over billions of facts
Location: This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.
Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all over the world. If you receive an offer, our team will work hard to get you a visa.
Benefits: We offer premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), fertility benefits, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.
Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, criminal histories consistent with applicable law, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI application. They build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to index it, and develop super high-performance vector databases in Rust to search over it. They also own a $5m H200 GPU cluster and routinely run batch jobs with tens of thousands of machines.