Exa
Developer Advocate
San Francisco, California · Staff+
H1B sponsorship availableDetected 20 hours ago
API DevelopmentLLMsProduct ManagementProduct StrategySEOValuationResearchCommunicationPublic Speaking
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About the role
- This is an engineer's job with an audience.
- Then you'll show how it works, in talks, streams, workshops, repos, and wherever developers gather.
- This role is in-person, at either our San Francisco HQ or in New York office.
Responsibilities
- We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs.
- Exa is building a search engine for the AI era.
- You'll work closely with the Head of DevRel on community and ecosystem programs, and with Technical PMM on repurposing what you build into content for SEO and AEO.
- Integrations we own stay healthy, not abandoned after launch.
- Own a growing library of working code that shows Exa at its best: reference agents, integration examples, and demos built for specific developer use cases.
- Product roadmap and API design: Product and Engineering.
Requirements
- 3+ years as a software engineer, developer advocate, or a mix, with code you can show us.
- You have built with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, and you can speak about what worked and what didn't.
- You can teach something technical to a room and hold their attention.
- Comfort working in public and taking technical criticism without getting defensive.
Nice to have
- Open source contributions developers would recognize.
- Experience at an API-first or developer tools company.
- A following or reputation in the AI developer community.
- Experience running workshops or hackathon mentoring.
Benefits
- Health and wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a monthly wellness benefit and a monthly commuter benefit for our SF team.
Company info
- 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 are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history.
- We are looking for a Developer Advocate who builds real things with our API and can make other developers want to build them too.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
- Exa is an equal opportunity employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and locations.
This listing is sourced directly from Exa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.