Design and implement high-performance systems and data processing pipelines for advanced search applications, impacting millions of users in AI.
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.
As a backend engineer, you'd play a critical role in our backend system. We're pretty flexible on what projects people work on based on their skills and interests.
Desired Experience
You have experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems
You can build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day
You’re comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree
You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
Plus: Experience in some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)
Example Projects
Recreate Google-level keyword search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
Build a state-of-the-art crawling system that works optimally for any website
Build a custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms
This is an in-person opportunity in Zurich, Switzerland.
Exa develops a real-time AI search engine and web crawling API, tailored for users seeking to extract structured data from websites. Our platform is uniquely built from the ground up to support every AI application, leveraging high-performance infrastructure and advanced embedding models to push the limits of web search capabilities.
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