Software Engineer, Backend

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. As a backend engineer, you'd play a critical role in our search architecture. We're pretty flexible on what projects people work on based on their skills and interests.

Responsibilities

Play a critical role in our search architecture; Work on projects based on skills and interests

Requirements

Experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems; Ability to build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day; Comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree; Care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world

Nice to have

Experience in some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)

Benefits

Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision); Fertility benefits; 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents; Monthly wellness stipend