Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems

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 400000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed Benchmark and a16z.

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the worlds 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.

As a Software Engineer on Knowledge Systems youll help build systems that understand what is true about the world. Youll work on extracting connecting retrieving and reasoning over knowledge from the web and beyond so AI agents can answer questions with unprecedented precision and completeness.

Desired Experience

• You have experience building and maintaining complex distributed backend systems

• You can build data pipelines that process petabytes of documents metadata and unstructured data

• Youre comfortable optimizing systems for correctness reliability and scale

• You care deeply about data quality and finding high-quality information

• Plus: experience building systems involving graph traversal entity resolution data quality or truth discovery

Example Projects

• Build a system that can answer every factual question about every person in the world

• Design a new query language for searching traversing and reasoning over billions of facts

Logistics

• Location: This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.

• Visas: Were 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.

• 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.

Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin disability age veteran status marital status pregnancy or related conditions criminal histories consistent with applicable law or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Required Experience:

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