job posting · ashby
EXA CORP: Research Engineer, Generalist
Observed on the employer’s careers system, last checked 2026-09-01.
- Employer
- EXA CORP
- Location
- San Francisco, California
- Category
- Research
- Posted
- 2026-07-07
- Careers system
- ashby
- Observed
- 2026-09-01
Role description
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Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z. Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you. Generalist Research Engineers work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms. The team is centered around improving end quality of search endpoints for customers. Who You Are High attention to detail;…
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