Software Engineer, Exa

Intern

$100-150k

C++

Rust

San Francisco Bay Area

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Search infrastructure for AI

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Search infrastructure for AI

21-100 employees

B2CB2BArtificial Intelligence

Be an early applicant

$100-150k

C++

Rust

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

21-100 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

Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field AND are willing to take off a semester to work full time in SF. Remote and part-time interns are not accepted
You have experience with some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)
You often code technically difficult or interesting projects for fun
You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world

What the job involves

As an engineering intern, you'd play a critical role in lots of our projects. We're pretty flexible on what projects people work on based on their skills and interests
Example Projects
Recreate Google-level keyword search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
Build a state-of-the-art crawling system that works optimally for any website
Build a custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms

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 5 rounds)

Sep 2025

$85m

SERIES B

Jul 2024

$17.6m

SERIES A

Total funding: $112.2m

Company HQ

Lower Haight, 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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