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 are comfortable owning a problem with no ground truth, where the first job is defining what the right answer means Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- You are comfortable owning a problem with no ground truth, where the first job is defining what the right answer means
- Hands-on ML experience with classifiers, rankers and calibration, plus strong data instincts at web scale
- You think in end-to-end impact. A signal only counts if a decision changes and search gets better
- You like working across teams. Crawling, indexing and retrieval all consume what you build
- You care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world
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.
We crawl the web continuously and cannot keep all of it, refresh all of it, or spend a GPU on all of it. Something has to decide which pages are worth indexing, which links are worth following, which pages say the same thing as pages we already have, what has gone stale, and what we should never have picked up. These decisions are worth more than most ranking work. The cheapest way to improve search is to stop indexing pages nobody should ever retrieve, and to start indexing the ones we are missing. Today they run on a mix of learned signals and thresholds...
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