Software Engineer, Intern

Exa
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 100,000 - 150,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Problem-solving"]

Engineering internship at Exa focusing on building a high-performance search infrastructure. Work on projects involving crawling, embedding models, and vector databases in Rust, contributing to scalable systems on a large GPU cluster. In-person in San Francisco; sponsorship available for international candidates. Flexible project assignments based on skills and interests.

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Exa
Exa
1 year ago

Software Engineer, Intern

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Job Summary

Engineering internship at Exa focusing on building a high-performance search infrastructure. Work on projects involving crawling, embedding models, and vector databases in Rust, contributing to scalable systems on a large GPU cluster. In-person in San Francisco; sponsorship available for international candidates. Flexible project assignments based on skills and interests.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Contribute to ongoing projects across the engineering team, taking ownership of defined tasks and milestones
  • •Assist in building components of a massive-scale search infrastructure, including crawling, indexing, and vector databases
  • •Collaborate with Rust/C++ engineers to implement performant features and optimize systems
  • •Participate in code reviews and documentation to share learnings with the team
  • •Support in-person development efforts in San Francisco and engage with cross-functional teams

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 100,000 - 150,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field and willing to take off a semester to work full time in SF (Remote and part-time interns are not accepted)
  • •Experience with some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)
  • •Tends to code technically difficult or interesting projects for fun
  • •Care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize its importance for the world
Experience:AISearchHigh performance computing
Skills:Problem-solving
Tech Stack:RustC++GPUEmbedding models

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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