Join Exa as a Software Engineer to build systems that enhance AI's understanding of knowledge and information.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
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Requirements
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Software Engineer for Knowledge Systems at Exa, the individual will focus on developing systems that extract and reason over knowledge from vast data sources, enabling AI agents to provide accurate answers. Key skills include experience with complex distributed backend systems, data pipeline construction, and a strong emphasis on data quality. This position is ideal for someone with a solid background in machine learning and data processing, particularly those who thrive in innovative environments aiming to redefine information retrieval. Exa's ambitious goal of creating a revolutionary search engine sets the stage for impactful work in the AI landscape.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Exa's career page.
- Exa has 54 other open roles including Design Engineer, Lifecycle Marketing Manger, Sales Development Representative, SF.
- 5144 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 432 active distributed systems roles on Joblaze right now.
- 95 active Data Pipelines roles on Joblaze right now.
- Typical AI/ML salary we track runs $140,000–$231,000 (median $180,000, across 2237 roles). See AI/ML salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, California.
- Where is the role based?
- Exa is hiring for this position in San Francisco, California.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Data Pipelines, Data Quality, Entity Resolution, distributed systems, graph traversal.
- Does Exa sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Exa targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems role at Exa.
From the original posting
Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.
Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you.
As a Software Engineer on Knowledge Systems, you’ll help build systems that understand what is true about the world. You’ll work on extracting, connecting, retrieving, and reasoning over knowledge from the web and beyond so AI agents can answer questions with unprecedented precision and completeness.
Desired Experience
You have experience building and maintaining complex distributed backend systems
You can build data pipelines that process petabytes of documents, metadata, and unstructured data
You’re comfortable optimizing systems for correctness, reliability, and scale
You care deeply about data quality and finding high-quality information
Plus: experience building systems involving graph traversal, entity resolution, data quality, or truth discovery
Example Projects
Build a system that can answer every factual question about every person in the world
Design a new query language for searching, traversing, and reasoning over billions of facts
Logistics
Location: This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.
Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all over the world. If you receive an offer, our team will work hard to get you a visa.
Benefits: We offer premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), fertility benefits, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.
Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, criminal histories consistent with applicable law, or any other basis protected by applicable law.