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
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.
What they're looking for
- 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
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’re looking for a Technical Recruiter to help build our Exa family!
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...
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