Software Engineer, Backend

mid

via Ashby

About this role

We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs. Led by a16z, with existing investors Benchmark, Lightspeed, and YC doubling down, the round brings Exa's valuation to $2.2 billion. Read more https://exa.ai/blog/announcing-series-c Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI agent. We build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases in rust to search over it. If you like compute, we also own a $5M H200 GPU cluster (and soon 5x'ing that) and regularly spin up batchjobs with tens of thousands of machines. We are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history.…

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What we'd score you on

reqspace match rubric

Five dimensions, recruiter-grade. Upload your resume and we'll generate a written explanation of where you fit and where the gaps are.

1

Skills match

For this role: rust, c++

2

Level fit

This role is mid-level. We check your trajectory against it.

3

Domain experience

Your work in the role's domain matters more than your years total. We weight recent and direct experience.

4

Recency

A skill you used last quarter weighs more than one from five years ago. We grade on recency, not lifetime.

5

Location fit

This role is based in a specific location. We weight your proximity and willingness to relocate.

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