1 year ago
Base Salary
$150k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend systems for a massive-scale search engine
- Develop data processing pipelines for millions of documents per day
- Create and optimize large-scale web crawling infrastructure
- Build high-performance vector database systems
- Work flexibly on projects aligned with individual skills and interests
Requirements
- Experience writing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Ability to build data processing pipelines handling millions of documents per day
- Comfort optimizing systems to an exceptional degree
- Interest in finding high-quality information and its broader importance
- Experience with a high-performance language such as C++ or Rust is a plus
Benefits
- In-person work opportunity in San Francisco
- International candidate sponsorship is available, including STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, and E3
- Premium medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits
- Fertility benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend
About Exa
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