Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI application. We build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to index it, and develop super high performant vector databases in rust to search over it. We also own a $5m H200 GPU cluster and routinely run batchjobs with 10s of thousands of machines. This isn't your average startup :)
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Exa, you'll bridge the gap between engineering and sales by working closely with both our customers and engineering. This requires someone who can program and also sell -- a killer combo!
Desired Experience/Qualities
Several years of programming experience (Ex. could build a server in node.js)
Have experience talking to customers, whether you were a consultant or a barista
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
Take a series B company from first outbound call to deal closed
Build cool coding tutorials demonstrating the Exa API
Take many sales calls each week
Analyze user interactions and identify ways to improve our sales pipeline
Fix bugs in the frontend or backend that customers point out
This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).
Top Skills
What We Do
Exa was built with a simple goal — to organize all knowledge. After several years of heads-down research, we developed novel representation learning techniques and crawling infrastructure so that LLMs can intelligently find relevant information.
