Forward Deployed Engineer

Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI application. We build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to index it, and develop super high performant vector databases in Rust to search over it. We also own a $5M H200 GPU cluster that regularly lights up tens of thousands of machines.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Exa, you'll bridge the gap between engineering and sales by working closely with both our customers and engineering. This requires someone who can program and also sell — a killer combo!

Desired experience and qualities:

• Several years of programming experience (e.g., could build a server in Node.js)
• Experience talking to customers, whether you were a consultant or a barista
• Excited to wear many hats (sales, marketing, backend, frontend, etc.)
• Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world

Example projects:

• Take a Series B company from first outbound call to deal closed
• Build cool coding tutorials demonstrating the Exa API
• Take many sales calls each week
• Analyze user interactions and identify ways to improve our sales pipeline
• Fix bugs in the frontend or backend that customers point out

This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.