Software Engineer, Backend

Location: San Francisco, California (On-site) Employment Type: Full time Department: Engineering Compensation: $180K – $350K • Offers Equity

Company Overview:

• 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.
• Design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it.
• We power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers.
• Raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.
• Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information beyond Google.

Desired Experience:

• Experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems.
• Ability to build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day.
• Comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree.
• Care about finding high quality information and recognize its importance for the world.
• Plus: Experience in some high performance language (C++, Rust).

Example Projects:

• Recreate Google-level keyword search over 10 billion pages in 1 month.
• Build a state-of-the-art crawling system that works optimally for any website.
• Build a custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms.

Logistics:

• Location: This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.
• Visas: Visa sponsorship available for international candidates (STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).
• Benefits: Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), fertility benefits, 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all new parents,and a monthly wellness stipend to all employees.

Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, creed,color,religion,etc.