Technical Recruiter, Exa

$120-170k

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Junior and Mid level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

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Search infrastructure for AI

Open for applications

Search infrastructure for AI

101-200 employees

B2CB2BArtificial Intelligence

Open for applications

$120-170k

Offers Equity

Junior and Mid level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

101-200 employees

B2CB2BArtificial Intelligence

Company mission

To understand any query – no matter how complex – and filter the internet to exactly the knowledge required for that query.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

2+ years of experience recruiting for technical roles in startups or high-growth tech companies
Familiarity with SF startup culture—you know how to identify and attract top 1% startup talent
Strong communication skills—you can tell a compelling story and sell a big vision
Technical literacy (bonus if you can code or have a technical background). You’re expected to communicate our ongoing engineering projects to technical candidates
A builder mindset—you want to design recruiting systems, not just run them
Comfort in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment

What the job involves

As a Technical Recruiter at Exa, you’ll work directly with the founders and leadership team to scale our company
This isn’t a standard recruiting job—you’ll be recruiting in the age of AI, using in-house agentic systems built on top of our own search engine to supercharge the process
You’ll not only help build our early, world-class technical team, but also design the recruiting systems that let us scale rapidly
If you understand the SF tech/startup ecosystem and can speak the language of engineers (bonus if you can code yourself), you’ll thrive here
Own the technical recruiting cycle end-to-end: sourcing, outreach, interviews, and closing
Represent Exa externally and convince top-tier engineers, researchers, and operators to join
Partner with founders and team leads to scope roles and identify high-leverage hires
Build and optimize recruiting systems and workflows using Exa’s in-house agentic search tools
Experiment with creative sourcing strategies to stand out in the competitive SF startup market
Help shape Exa’s talent brand and recruiting culture as we scale hyperspeed (1.5x+ headcount growth each quarter)

Our take

The way we currently query AIs means that the models we rely on are themselves reliant on the quality of internet search tools. To answer this, Exa is building a tool that allows AI models to perform the equivalent of a web search, making the models more effective in their responses to our questions.

Exa’s embeddings-based search engine is free of “hallucinations” (those bizarre search query answers that AI sometimes brings back to users). Also, in the same way that LLMs complete sentences, its predictive technology does the same for search queries by providing the next probable link.

It's an alluring product for companies and individuals who want to accelerate their research answers. It's also one of a kind at present, which has led to several successful funding rounds which will help accelerate its product. If it maintains its current momentum, Exa could well be the AI search engine of the future.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

May 2026

$250m

SERIES C

Sep 2025

$85m

SERIES B

Total funding: $362.2m

Company HQ

Mission District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Will Bryk

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously a Software Engineer at Cresta, Intern at Zoox Inc and was the President of the Harvard Undergrad Robotics Club.

Jeffrey Wang

(Co-Founder)

Previously a Member of South Park Commons and was a Software Engineer at Plaid.

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