Research Engineer, Generalist
About The Position
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. Generalist Research Engineers work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms. The team is centered around improving end quality of search endpoints for customers.
Requirements
- High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system
- Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep
- Excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more
- Comfortable working across different systems, and shipping fast
- Care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
Responsibilities
- Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance
- Improve throughput and latency of ML models
- Make our web crawler 3x faster
Benefits
- Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Fertility benefits
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Monthly wellness stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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