Exa is building web-scale systems for search. We routinely run batch jobs with >1000 machines and develop production services that involve many terabytes of text. Up for the challenge?
Desired Experience
You have extensive LLM prompt engineering experience, or would be excited to ramp up very quickly
You have experience with some high performance language (C++, rust, etc.)
You’re comfortable optimizing the crap out of a system
Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world
Example Projects
Recreate google-level search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
Manage and optimize the prompts across any LLM calls
Revamp our document parser to work for any website
Make a custom vector database run over a billion vectors in under 100ms
$130,000 - $300,000 a year
We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3)
This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We're big believers in in-person culture!
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