engineering
Posted Jun 26, 2025Forward Deployed Engineer
at Exa
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- About Exa We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs.
- Read more https://exa.ai/blog/announcing-series-c Exa is building a search engine for the AI era.
- Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn’t been disrupted since the 90s.
- We're a largely SF-based team of ~100 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders & dropouts alike.
- 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
Benefits
- Led by a16z, with existing investors Benchmark, Lightspeed, and YC doubling down, the round brings Exa's valuation to $2.2 billion.
- In addition to premium healthcare
- benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility
- benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.
Additional details
- We are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history.
- We’re high agency, low-ego, and united by the feeling that this is one of the last problems worth getting right.
- 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.
- We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).