Forward Deployed Engineer

Exa
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: QA, Test & Release EngineeringSkills: ["Customer-facing","Communication","Problem-solving","Sales","Adaptive"]

Bridge engineering and sales by working closely with customers and the engineering team to solve complex problems. You’ll write code, build demos and tutorials, engage in customer conversations, and help optimize our sales pipeline. This in-person role in San Francisco combines backend/frontend work with go-to-market activities, including frequent customer-facing interactions and problem-solving at scale.

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Exa
Exa
1 year ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

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Job Summary

Bridge engineering and sales by working closely with customers and the engineering team to solve complex problems. You’ll write code, build demos and tutorials, engage in customer conversations, and help optimize our sales pipeline. This in-person role in San Francisco combines backend/frontend work with go-to-market activities, including frequent customer-facing interactions and problem-solving at scale.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: QA, Test & Release Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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
  • •Ability to bridge engineering and sales with strong communication skills
Experience:SaaSAI
Skills:Customer-facingCommunicationProblem-solvingSalesAdaptive
Tech Stack:Node.jsRustJavaScriptAPIFrontendBackend

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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