Backend Engineer
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. Up for the challenge?
Desired Experience
- You have extensive LLM prompt engineering experience, or would be excited to ramp up very quickly
- 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
- 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
$130,000 - $300,000 a year
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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