
Exa was built with a simple goal — to organize all knowledge. After several years of heads-down research, we developed novel representation learning techniques and crawling infrastructure so that…

Exa was built with a simple goal — to organize all knowledge. After several years of heads-down research, we developed novel representation learning techniques and crawling infrastructure so that…
Product: AI-native search API and web crawler optimized for models and developer integrations
Founders: Will Bryk and Jeff Wang (met at Harvard)
Funding: Raised a $17M Series A (July 2024); reported total earlier rounds to $22M
Employees: 119
Indexing and retrieval of web knowledge in formats optimized for large language models and AI agents.
Artificial intelligence / Search
$17M
Series A included participation from NVIDIA's NVentures and Y Combinator; reporting indicates prior seed of $5M bringing earlier total to $22M.
“Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVIDIA (NVentures), Y Combinator”
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Exa is building a search engine from scratch to serve every AI application. We build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to index it, and develop super high performant vector databases in Rust to search over it. We also own a $5m H200 GPU cluster and routinely run batchjobs with tens of thousands of machines. This isn't your average startup :)
As a backend engineer, you'd play a critical role in our backend system. We're pretty flexible on what projects people work on based on their skills and interests.
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This is an in-person opportunity in Singapore.
Compensation Range: $150K - $300K
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