# Principal Field Engineer, US Remote at Exa

- Company: Exa
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://exa.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $325K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/exa/ab53a8dd-ff37-459b-b834-be3b7a840d3d?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exa-principal-field-engineer-us-remote/

## About the role

Our Solutions Architects and Forward Deployed Engineers are aligned to accounts, segments and Account Executives. This role isn't. As a Principal Field Engineer, you work across the whole business: every region, every segment, presales and post-sales. Your job is to make Exa impossible to ignore for developers and technical buyers, and to make every Field Engineer better at showing what Exa can do. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Several years of hands-on programming experience. You can build polished demos and sample apps from scratch, fast, and you enjoy it
- 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role (solutions architect, sales engineer, developer advocate or similar), ideally at an AI-native, API or developer-first company
- A track record of teaching and presenting to technical audiences: talks, workshops, webinars, video tutorials or community events
- Strong communication skills: you can hold a room of engineers, then explain the same thing simply to an executive
- Self-directed: you can set your own priorities without a segment or a quota to tell you where to go
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, including internationally

Tags: GTM

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exa-principal-field-engineer-us-remote/