Research Engineer, Generalist

Exa
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: []

R&D Product Engineers work across the search and retrieval stack to improve end-to-end search quality for customers, tackling crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms. You’ll design and ship performance-focused parser improvements, optimize ML throughput and latency, and accelerate web crawling, all while collaborating across in-person, San Francisco-based teams building cutting-edge vector databases in Rust.

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Job Summary

R&D Product Engineers work across the search and retrieval stack to improve end-to-end search quality for customers, tackling crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms. You’ll design and ship performance-focused parser improvements, optimize ML throughput and latency, and accelerate web crawling, all while collaborating across in-person, San Francisco-based teams building cutting-edge vector databases in Rust.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work across our search and retrieval stack to improve end quality of search endpoints for customers.
  • •Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance.
  • •Improve throughput and latency of ML models.
  • •Make our web crawler 3x faster.
  • •Contribute to cross-team efforts to optimize crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system.
  • •Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep.
  • •You're excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more.
  • •Comfortable working across different systems, and shipping fast.
  • •You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world.
Experience:SearchInformation retrievalMachine learningRustAI
Tech Stack:RustEmbedding modelsGPUVector databasesWeb crawlerParsingML performance

Company Brief

Exa
Builds an embeddings-based neural search engine and web search API for AI applications, offering crawling, retrieval, and deep research tools to serve developers and AI agents with up-to-date web knowledge.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 500M to 1B
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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