Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems
$180k - $350k • San Francisco, California • FullTime
Posted 4mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco, California
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Exa is an applied AI lab building a revolutionary search engine. We develop massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models, and design high-performance vector databases. Our goal is to create perfect search over all the world's information, surpassing current capabilities. As a Software Engineer on Knowledge Systems, you will contribute to building systems that understand and reason over knowledge from the web and beyond, enabling AI agents to answer questions with exceptional precision and completeness.
Responsibilities
- Build systems that understand what is true about the world.
- Extract, connect, retrieve, and reason over knowledge from the web and beyond.
- Design systems for AI agents to answer questions with unprecedented precision and completeness.
- Build and maintain complex distributed backend systems.
- Develop data pipelines to process petabytes of documents, metadata, and unstructured data.
- Optimize systems for correctness, reliability, and scale.
- Build a system to answer every factual question about every person in the world.
- Design a new query language for searching, traversing, and reasoning over billions of facts.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining complex distributed backend systems.
- Ability to build data pipelines that process petabytes of documents, metadata, and unstructured data.
- Comfortable optimizing systems for correctness, reliability, and scale.
- Deep care for data quality and finding high-quality information.
- Experience building systems involving graph traversal, entity resolution, data quality, or truth discovery is a plus.
Benefits
- Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Fertility benefits
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Monthly wellness stipend