Founding Design Engineer, Exa

$130-200k

React

CSS

Node.js

Next.js

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Search infrastructure for AI

Open for applications

Search infrastructure for AI

21-100 employees

B2CB2BArtificial Intelligence

Open for applications

$130-200k

React

CSS

Node.js

Next.js

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

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

Strong design skills (UI design, interaction design, graphic design fundamentals)
Strong programming skills, experience with application development, and excellent troubleshooting skills
Deep knowledge of React, NextJS, NodeJS, CSS, or equivalent frontend tech
Obsessed with user experience (polish, readability, accessibility, performance)
You thrive in high velocity, high growth, scrappy startup environment

What the job involves

Think up the right interface(s) for finding information in a new world of automated intelligence. Then implement it
Design product concepts that balance vision, craft, speed, and business potential
Help lead the product roadmap
Create a Exa Chat frontend where you chat with Exa results
Invent new ways to combine LLMs with Exa search
Create an interactive playground for developers to onboard to Exa's API

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

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2024

$17.6m

SERIES A

Jan 2024

$4.4m

SEED

Total funding: $27m

Company HQ

Lower Haight, San Francisco, CA

Articles

Exa: Search-Focused AI Company Secures $22 Million

Exa, which develops a search engine for artificial intelligence models, received $17 million in investment

Exa raises $17M from Lightspeed, Nvidia, Y Combinator to build a Google for AIs

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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