Exa

Design Engineer

Exa
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2 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 is an applied AI research lab organizing human knowledge, starting with the web. Exa Search is the highest quality search API at every latency. It accepts natural language queries and produces token-efficient results with citations. Exa Agent is a high-compute web agent that synthesizes information from across the web to handle the most complex deep research, list-building, and enrichment workflows. These products power Cursor, Cognition, Hubspot, OpenRouter, Monday.com, and agents built by over 400,000 developers. We are a worldwide team of engineers and researchers. We're hiring: exa.ai/careers

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