Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free. Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and a16z.
About the role
You'll lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers covering US East, based in our New York office. Your team owns what happens after the deal closes: getting customers to production fast, making Exa a load-bearing part of their stack, and growing the accounts and/or expanding into new use cases. You're measured on revenue: retention and expansion across your team's accounts. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Several years of programming experience. You could build and deploy a production server from scratch, and you can debug customer integrations yourself
- Experience working inside real codebases and production systems, ideally with search, retrieval, LLMs or data pipelines
- 4+ years in technical customer-facing roles, such as forward deployed, customer or solutions engineering, technical consulting or software engineering with customer ownership, including experience leading or mentoring engineers
- A track record of driving adoption, retention or expansion on technical accounts
- Clear communication with CTOs, engineering leads and executives
- Willingness to travel as needed for customer engagements
More about this role
We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs. Led by a16z, with existing investors Benchmark, Lightspeed, and YC doubling down, the round brings Exa's valuation to $2.2 billion.
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, and dropouts alike.
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.
You'll lead a team of Forward Deployed Engineers covering US East, based in our New York office. Your team owns what happens after the deal closes: getting customers to production fast, making Exa a load-bearing part of their stack, and growing the accounts and/or expanding into new use cases. You're measured on revenue: retention and expansion across your team's accounts.
This is a player-coach role. You'll lead the team and still carry the technical depth of a senior FDE: you debug customer integrations, review...
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