About the role
Exa is building web-scale systems for search. We routinely run batch jobs with >1000 machines and develop production services that involve many terabytes of text. Up for the challenge?
Desired Experience
- You have extensive experience with some high performance language (C++, rust, etc.)
- You’re comfortable optimizing the crap out of a system
- Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world
Example Projects
- Recreate google-level search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
- Revamp our document parser to work for any website
- Make a custom vector database run over a billion vectors in under 100ms
About Exa
Exa is a search engine built for AIs. We enable developers to filter the internet's content with complex queries in order to bring the world's knowledge into their AI apps.
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Job details
Salary
$119,977 - $200,000
Location
San Francisco, California
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Total raised
$20M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.