2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$130k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and own reference agents, integration examples, demos, and other working code for developer use cases.
- Deliver conference talks, meetups, workshops, hackathons, streams, and video instruction.
- Answer questions and support developers in public forums and relevant communities.
- Build and maintain integrations with developer frameworks and tools.
- Communicate specific developer friction and feedback to Product and Engineering.
- Collaborate with the Head of Developer Relations on community and ecosystem programs.
- Work with Technical PMM to repurpose technical work into SEO and AEO content.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience as a software engineer, developer advocate, or a combination of both, with demonstrable code.
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, including the ability to discuss technical pipeline issues with staff engineers.
- Public technical artifacts such as repositories, talks, streams, tutorials, or side projects.
- Strong live communication and the ability to teach technical concepts to an audience.
- Genuine interest in helping developers through community support and public forums.
- Comfort working publicly and receiving technical criticism constructively.
- Daily use of AI tooling with informed opinions about its limitations.
- Preferred qualifications include recognizable open-source contributions, experience at an API-first or developer-tools company, an AI developer community following, workshop or hackathon mentoring experience, and video, writing, or design skills.
Benefits
- In-person work at either the San Francisco headquarters or New York office.
- Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus monthly wellness and commuter benefits for the SF team.
- Eligible fertility and family-planning expense reimbursement up to a $15,000 lifetime maximum.
- Sixteen weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents through birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement.
- Daily lunch and dinner, stocked snacks and beverages, fresh bakery bread, weekly milk tea, monthly picnics, and celebratory parties.
- Visa sponsorship is available for exceptional candidates.
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About Exa
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.