At Exa, we're building a next-generation AI search engine—one that outperforms Google for power users. We help people find the information they can’t get anywhere else: https://exa.ai/websets

We're an SF team of ~20 from Harvard, MIT, Apple, Palantir, etc. We recently raised a Series A from Lightspeed + Nvidia, and we are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history.

Exa is building web-scale systems for search. We routinely run batch jobs with >1000 machines and develop production services that involve many terabytes of text. Up for the challenge?

Desired Experience

• You have extensive experience with some high performance language (C++, rust, etc.)
• You’re comfortable optimizing the crap out of a system
• Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world

Example Projects

• Recreate google-level search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
• Revamp our document parser to work for any website
• Make a custom vector database run over a billion vectors in under 100ms