Engineering Manager
San Francisco, California
Engineering /
Full-time /
On-site
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. We need someone with equally good product intuition, engineering ability, and people management skills to lead our talented team.
Desired Experience
- You have extensive experience as a tech lead or engineering manager for teams of 10+
- You have 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
- Plan quarterly goals, and hold your team accountable on a day-to-day basis for accomplishing them
- Recreate google-level search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
- Manage and optimize the prompts across any LLM calls
- Revamp our document parser to work for any website
- Make a custom vector database run over a billion vectors in under 100ms
$180,000 - $300,000 a year
+ Above Market Equity
We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3)
This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're big believers in in-person culture!
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