Research Engineer, Generalist

Exa
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeSGD 90,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Attention to detail","Problem-solving","Communication"]

Generalist Research Engineer role spanning the search and retrieval stack—crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms. Work in-person in Singapore on high-scale infrastructure (Rust-based vector databases, GPU cluster) to improve end-user search quality, with sponsorship for international candidates and exposure to cutting-edge embedding models.

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Exa
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Research Engineer, Generalist

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Job Summary

Generalist Research Engineer role spanning the search and retrieval stack—crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms. Work in-person in Singapore on high-scale infrastructure (Rust-based vector databases, GPU cluster) to improve end-user search quality, with sponsorship for international candidates and exposure to cutting-edge embedding models.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work across the search and retrieval stack including crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms to improve end-user search quality.
  • •Collaborate across systems to ship features and improve throughput/latency of ML models and crawlers.
  • •Design and implement parser improvements to dramatically improve retrieval performance.
  • •Contribute to making the web crawler faster (3x improvement as an example project).
  • •Contribute to building and deploying high-performance infrastructure (Rust-based vector databases) for customers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: SGD 90,000 - 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:AIInformation retrievalSearch
Skills:Attention to detailProblem-solvingCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustGPUEmbeddingsVector databasesMachine learning

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

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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