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 ExperienceHigh attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the systemGreat intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deepYou're excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and moreComfortable working across different systems, and shipping fastYou care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the worldExample ProjectsDesign and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performanceImprove throughput and latency of ML modelsMake our web crawler 3x fasterThis is an in-person opportunity in Singapore. We’re happy to sponsor international candidates.