Exa
Technology
SoftwareEngineer,KnowledgeSystems
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.
“Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems at Exa. Skills: Knowledge Systems, Applied AI, Massive-scale infra. Build systems that understand truth. Extract knowledge from web”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience building distributed backend systems, Build data pipelines, Optimize systems for correctness, Optimize systems for reliability, Optimize systems for scale
Nice to Have
Experience with graph traversal, Experience with entity resolution, Experience with data quality, Experience with truth discovery
What You'll Do.
Build systems that understand truth
Extract knowledge from web
Connect knowledge from web
Retrieve knowledge from web
Reason over knowledge from web
Build systems for AI agents
Answer questions with precision
Answer questions with completeness
Full Job Description
Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z. Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you. As a Software Engineer on Knowledge Systems, you’ll help build systems that understand what is true about the world. You’ll work on extracting, connecting, retrieving, and reasoning over knowledge from the web and beyond so AI agents can answer questions with unprecedented precision and completeness. Desired Experience - You have experience building and maintaining complex distributed backend systems - You can build data pipelines that process petabytes of documents, metadata, and unstructured data - You’re comfortable optimizing systems for correctness, reliability, and scale - You care deeply about data quality and finding high-quality information Plus: experience building systems involving graph traversal, entity resolution, data quality, or truth discovery Example Projects - Build a system that can answer every factual question about every person in the world - Design a new query language for searching, traversing, and reasoning over billions of facts
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