Developer Advocate

Exa•San Francisco, CA

5d•$130,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the 90s. We're a largely SF-based team of ~100 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders & dropouts alike. We are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history. We're high agency, low-ego, and united by the feeling that this is one of the last problems worth getting right. We are looking for a Developer Advocate who builds real things with our API and can make other developers want to build them too.

Requirements

3+ years as a software engineer, developer advocate, or a mix, with code you can show us.
Real fluency in the AI stack. You have built with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, and you can speak about what worked and what didn't.
Public artifacts: repos, talks, streams, tutorials, or side projects.
Strong live communication. You can teach something technical to a room and hold their attention.
Genuine enthusiasm for helping other developers, including the unglamorous version of that in a support thread at 9pm.
Comfort working in public and taking technical criticism without getting defensive.
AI-native working habits: you build with AI tooling daily and have opinions about where it falls short.

Nice To Haves

Open source contributions developers would recognize.
Experience at an API-first or developer tools company.
A following or reputation in the AI developer community.
Experience running workshops or hackathon mentoring.
Range beyond code: video, writing, or design skills that make your demos land harder.

Responsibilities

Build reference apps, demos, and integrations.
Show how Exa works through talks, streams, workshops, and repos.
Work closely with the Head of DevRel on community and ecosystem programs.
Work with Technical PMM on repurposing built assets into content for SEO and AEO.
Own a growing library of working code that shows Exa at its best: reference agents, integration examples, and demos built for specific developer use cases.
Be a teacher, both in-person and on video. Represent Exa at conference talks, meetups, workshops, hackathons, and streams.
Be genuinely useful in public forums: answering questions, unblocking developers, participating in the communities where our users are.
Build and maintain integrations with the frameworks and tools developers use, in partnership with the Head of DevRel.
Carry friction back to Product and Engineering with the specificity only a builder can provide: what broke, where you got stuck, and what a new developer would abandon.

Benefits

Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage
Monthly wellness benefit
Monthly commuter benefit for SF team
Reimbursement for eligible egg freezing and related medical expenses up to a $15,000 lifetime maximum
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
Lunch and dinner served daily
Office stocked with snacks, coffee, and health supplements
Fresh bread from a local bakery every morning
Weekly milk tea deliveries
Monthly picnics
Parties to celebrate wins
Visa sponsorship