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Research Engineer, Generalist

Exa · San Francisco, California · On-site

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About Exa

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

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. You're excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more

More about this role

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.

Generalist Research Engineers work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms. The team is centered around improving end quality of search endpoints for customers.

Who You Are

High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system

Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep

You're excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more

Comfortable working across...

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