Research Engineer, Generalist

Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI application. We build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to index it, and develop super high performant vector databases in Rust to search over it. We also own a $5M H200 GPU cluster that regularly lights up tens of thousands of machines.

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.

Desired Experience

• High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system

• Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep

• You're excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more

• Comfortable working across different systems, and shipping fast

• You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world

Example Projects

• Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance

• Improve throughput and latency of ML models

• Make our web crawler 3x faster

This is an in-person opportunity in Singapore. We’re happy to sponsor international candidates. In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.