Developer Advocate

We are looking for a Developer Advocate who builds real things with our API and can make other developers want to build them too. This is an engineer's job with an audience. You'll spend your time building: reference apps, demos, integrations, and the small sharp examples that make a developer understand in thirty seconds what Exa unlocks for their agent. 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

Own a growing library of working code that shows Exa at its best; Represent Exa at conference talks, meetups, workshops, hackathons, and streams; Be genuinely useful in public forums; Build and maintain integrations with frameworks and tools developers use; Carry friction back to Product and Engineering with the specificity only a builder can provide

Requirements

3+ years as a software engineer, developer advocate, or a mix, with code you can show us; Real fluency in the AI stack - built with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, and can speak about what worked and what didn't; Public artifacts: repos, talks, streams, tutorials, or side projects; Strong live communication - can teach something technical to a room and hold their attention; Genuine enthusiasm for helping other developers, including the unglamorous version of that in a support thread at 9pm; Comfort working in public and taking technical criticism without getting defensive; AI-native working habits - build with AI tooling daily and have opinions about where it falls short; You should already be building with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, and be able to talk to a staff engineer about where their pipeline is failing without hedging

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; Range beyond code: video, writing, or design skills

Benefits

Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage; Monthly wellness benefit; Monthly commuter benefit for SF team; Reimbursement for eligible egg freezing and related medical expenses up to a $15,000 lifetime maximum; 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave; Lunch and dinner served daily; Office stocked with snacks, coffee, and health supplements; Fresh bread from a local bakery every morning; Weekly milk tea deliveries; Monthly picnics and parties; Visa sponsorship