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Exa

Software Engineer, Intern

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$100K - $200K/yr

We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without ...

Exa

Account Executive

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $450K/yr

We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3) In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a ...

Exa

Founding Account Executive - NYC

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$90 - $150/hr

We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a ...

Exa

Software Engineer, Web Crawling

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $350K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Software Engineer, Backend

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $350K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $350K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Research Engineer, Generalist

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $350K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Creative Video Producer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $220K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $350K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Software Engineer, Full Stack

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $350K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Research, ML

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$180K - $350K/yr

Visas: We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa, we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all ...

Exa

Technical Recruiter

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $170K/yr

Comfort in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment We are open to sponsoring international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical ...

Exa

Technical Sourcer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$100K - $180K/yr

SF startup familiarity, you know who the top engineers are and where they hang out We are open to sponsoring international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3). In addition to premium health ...

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Infographic showing various Opt H1B job openings in California as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 74% Full Time, 20% Part Time, 3% Contract, and 2% Nights. Highlights an 92% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 5% Remote job distribution.

Research Engineer, Generalist

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Exa
501 - 1,000 employees
Learn more about Exaexternal

$120 - $150/hr

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Re-posted 17 days ago

Job description

Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI application. We build massive‑scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state‑of‑the‑art embedding models to index it, and develop super high performant vector databases in Rust to search over it. We also own a $5M H200 GPU cluster that regularly lights up tens of thousands of machines.

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.

Desired Experience

  • High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system

  • Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep

  • You’re 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

  • You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world

Example Projects

  • Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance

  • Improve throughput and latency of ML models

  • Make our web crawler 3x faster

This is an in‑person opportunity in San Francisco. We’re happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).

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