Exa

Exa

Research, Evals

San Francisco, California

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 280 days ago
PythonRustVector DatabasesMachine LearningLLMsHubSpotLogisticsResearch

About the role

  • We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.
  • We train foundational models for search.

Responsibilities

  • Have strong engineering fundamentals and can build reliable systems (Python, Rust, distributed pipelines, GPU/cluster jobs, etc.)
  • Enjoy diving into data via building eval sets, inspecting edge cases, designing creative measurement strategies
  • Design and implement evaluation frameworks that probe the limits of search
  • Build scalable, reliable eval pipelines that track regressions, drift, and quality signals across billions of documents
  • Create golden datasets, synthetic benchmarks, agentic tasks, and real-world test suites that reflect how developers, agents, and humans actually use Exa
  • Partner closely with ML researchers, data engineers, infra engineers, and product to shape the feedback loops that improve our search models

Skills

  • Basically, put the web into an extremely powerful database.

Benefits

  • We offer premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), fertility benefits, 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.
  • Have hands-on ML experience (training, finetuning, or evaluating models (bonus if related to embeddings or LLMs)

Equal opportunity

  • Exa is an equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).
  • While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all over the world.
  • If you receive an offer, our team will work hard to get you a visa.

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