Join Exa as a Technical Recruiter to build a world-class technical team using innovative AI-driven recruiting systems.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
AI in the day-to-day
You'll be recruiting in the age of AI, using in-house agentic systems built on top of our own search engine.
Requirements
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Technical Recruiter at Exa, the individual will manage the entire recruiting process, from sourcing candidates to closing hires, while leveraging the company's advanced AI-driven search tools. Key skills include a strong understanding of the tech startup landscape, effective communication, and technical literacy, with a preference for candidates who can code. This position is ideal for someone with at least two years of experience in technical recruiting, particularly in high-growth environments, who is eager to shape innovative recruiting systems. Exa's rapid growth and commitment to building a world-class team make this an exciting opportunity.
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.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 2 years of relevant experience for this Technical Recruiter role.
- 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 Technical Recruiter 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.
We’re looking for a Technical Recruiter to help build our Exa family!
About the Role
As a Technical Recruiter at Exa, you’ll work directly with the founders and leadership team to scale our company. This isn’t a standard recruiting job—you’ll be recruiting in the age of AI, using in-house agentic systems built on top of our own search engine to supercharge the process. You’ll not only help build our early, world-class technical team, but also design the recruiting systems that let us scale rapidly. If you understand the SF tech/startup ecosystem and can speak the language of engineers (bonus if you can code yourself), you’ll thrive here.
What You’ll Do
Own the technical recruiting cycle end-to-end: sourcing, outreach, interviews, and closing
Represent Exa externally and convince top-tier engineers, researchers, and operators to join
Partner with founders and team leads to scope roles and identify high-leverage hires
Build and optimize recruiting systems and workflows using Exa’s in-house agentic search tools
Experiment with creative sourcing strategies to stand out in the competitive SF startup market
Help shape Exa’s talent brand and recruiting culture as we scale hyperspeed (1.5x+ headcount growth each quarter)
Desired Experience
2+ years of experience recruiting for technical roles in startups or high-growth tech companies
Familiarity with SF startup culture—you know how to identify and attract top 1% startup talent
Strong communication skills—you can tell a compelling story and sell a big vision
Technical literacy (bonus if you can code or have a technical background). You’re expected to communicate our ongoing engineering projects to technical candidates.
A builder mindset—you want to design recruiting systems, not just run them
Comfort in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment
We are open to sponsoring international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits 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.