Exa is building web-scale systems for search. Our Agentic Search Team is pushing this frontier forward by creating a high-compute search layer to retrieve and synthesize knowledge at scale. We’re looking for someone with deep backend expertise who’s motivated by the challenge of inventing entirely new ways for humans and machines to interact with information.
Desired Experience
You can whip up react/node projects in no time
You have extensive prompt engineering experience, or would be excited to ramp up very quickly
You're excited to wear many hats (sales, marketing, backend, frontend, etc)
Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world
Example Projects
Create an Exa Chat frontend where you chat with Exa results
Make our web crawler 3x faster
Invent and implement useful ways for combining LLMs with Exa search
We are open to sponsoring international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).
This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're big believers in in-person culture!
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