Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems

What this role involves

Exa is hiring a Software Engineer for their Knowledge Systems team to build large-scale systems for extracting, connecting, and reasoning over knowledge from the web. The role involves developing distributed backend systems and data pipelines to power AI search over petabytes of data. The position is onsite in San Francisco with visa sponsorship available.

Skills this posting asks for

• distributed systems
• data pipelines
• data quality
• graph traversal
• entity resolution
• truth discovery
• search
• vector databases
• embedding models
• web crawling
• large-scale infrastructure

Requirements

• Remote policy: onsite
• Visa sponsorship: yes

From the employer’s posting

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, Cogni…