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Backend Engineer

Exa
San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Compensation
$120,000–$200,000/year

Job Description

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

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Job Details

Category
Software
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
San Francisco, CA
Posted
Compensation
$120,000 - $200,000 per year

About Exa

Exa offers an AI-centered search engine tailored for automated systems and applications, providing APIs for traditional search, content retrieval, web crawling, in-depth research, and large-scale query handling via its Websets product. It employs neural and embeddings-based indexing techniques to process semantically rich and complex queries, delivering full-page content and customizable filters to suit specific use cases.

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