Exa

Design Engineer

Exa
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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product and engineering from early exploration through launch.
  • Design and build polished experiences across Exa’s product, playground, documentation, and website.
  • Use design and code to explore ideas, prototype interactions, and refine production implementations.
  • Design new ways for developers and agents to discover, integrate, debug, and build with Exa.
  • Identify high-impact product opportunities and turn them into clear, polished experiences.

Requirements

  • Have 4+ years of experience designing and building software.
  • Provide a portfolio of polished, interactive products or prototypes.
  • Demonstrate strong visual and interaction design skills for complex technical products.
  • Be fluent in Figma, React, TypeScript or JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and reusable component-based development.
  • Use coding agents to explore, prototype, and ship ideas.
  • Independently identify opportunities, communicate clearly, and work effectively through ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Premium medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits.
  • Fertility benefits.
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents.
  • Monthly wellness stipend.
  • In-person work opportunity in San Francisco.
  • Visa sponsorship support for international candidates, including STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, and E3.

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About Exa

51-200 employees

Exa builds a web-scale search engine and API for AI agents and developer applications, combining its own crawler, embedding models, and high-performance vector search. It sells usage-based APIs and enterprise integrations that power retrieval-augmented generation, browsing, and automation on live web content. The company runs large crawling infrastructure and dedicated GPU clusters to continuously index and embed pages, and ships low-latency search components written in Rust.

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