Exa

Forward Deployed Engineer

Exa
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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$130k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Take customers from cold outbound through production integration and closed deal.
  • Build and ship demos, tutorials, and sample applications showcasing Exa’s capabilities.
  • Debug and resolve technical issues across the full stack, including API behavior and frontend rendering.
  • Translate customer feedback into product improvements and ship fixes when possible.
  • Conduct frequent sales and technical calls tailored to CTOs, engineers, and product managers.
  • Analyze usage data and customer interactions to identify churn risk and drive expansion.

Requirements

  • Several years of programming experience and the ability to build and deploy a production server from scratch.
  • A track record of high performance in a demanding environment.
  • Experience or comfort with direct customer interaction and high-stakes conversations.
  • Tolerance for context-switching, ambiguity, and sustained intensity.
  • Willingness to travel as needed for customer engagements.
  • Experience shipping user-facing products end to end or driving commercial outcomes is advantageous.

Benefits

  • In-person role in New York City.
  • International visa sponsorship is available, including STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, and E3.
  • Premium medical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits.
  • Fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Exa

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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