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What they do

Exa is an applied AI lab that builds a search engine for AI. It crawls the web, trains embedding models, and builds its own vector databases. Its products include the Search, Contents, Agent, and Monitors APIs. Exa says it powers search for Cursor, HubSpot, and more than 400,000 developers. Benchmark, Lightspeed, a16z, NVIDIA, and Y Combinator back it.

What they value

• High agency: own the outcome.
• Low ego.
• Care about finding high-quality information.
• Work in person, as one team.

Where they hire

Of 61 Postings, 39 name San Francisco and nine name New York. Others name London, Singapore, Zurich, Sydney, and India. Exa says it is a fully in-person team, with a few exceptions. Thirty-eight Postings say Exa sponsors visas. The India Posting is a forward deployed engineer for customers across Asia-Pacific.

Teams and roles

Go-to-market has 19 of the 61 Postings.

• Forward deployed engineers: six roles, in San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, and India. They take customers from contract to production.
• Sales: account executives, sales development, solutions architects, and support engineers.
• Engineering: eleven roles, for backend, web crawling, full stack, security, and the query and data parts of the Knowledge Engine.
• Research: six roles, for evals, machine learning, content understanding, and index intelligence.
• Marketing: eleven roles, among them developer relations, field events, and heads of marketing for EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
• Product, people, operations, and legal roles.

What they look for

Forty Postings name a number of years of experience, mostly from 2+ to 5+. Nine of the 17 engineering and research Postings name Rust or C++. The two backend Postings ask for high-throughput, low-latency systems. Six go-to-market Postings, most of them forward deployed engineer roles, ask for an engineering or coding background. Most Postings describe the team as high agency and low ego. Thirty-five name the schools and employers the team comes from, such as Harvard, MIT, Meta, and Google Research.