Forward Deployed Engineer
ExaSan Francisco, CaliforniaPosted 21 February 2026
Job Description
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 Forward Deployed Engineer at Exa, you'll bridge the gap between engineering and sales by working closely with both our customers and engineering. This requires someone who can program and also sell -- a killer combo!Desired Experience/QualitiesSeveral years of programming experience (Ex. could build a server in node.js)Have experience talking to customers, whether you were a consultant or a baristaExcited to wear many hats (sales, marketing, backend, frontend, etc)Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the worldExample ProjectsTake a series B company from first outbound call to deal closedBuild cool coding tutorials demonstrating the Exa APITake many sales calls each weekAnalyze user interactions and identify ways to improve our sales pipelineFix bugs in the frontend or backend that customers point outThis is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).
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