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ABOUT EXA
We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs. Led by a16z, with existing investors Benchmark, Lightspeed, and YC doubling down, the round brings Exa's valuation to $2.2 billion.
Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s, and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the 90s. We're a largely SF-based team of ~100 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders, and dropouts alike.
We are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history. We're high agency, low-ego, and united by the feeling that this is one of the last problems worth getting right.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Forward Deployed Engineers are the implementation and technical specialists. Once a customer signs, you become their engineering partner: you get them to production fast, make Exa a load-bearing part of their stack, and grow the account from there. You sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success, and you're measured on adoption, consumption, retention, and expansion.
You'll embed directly with customers' engineering teams to solve real problems with Exa's API. When something breaks, you fix it. When a feature is missing, you build it. When usage dips, you know why before the customer tells you. You're also our specialist bench: when a presales deal needs deeper expertise than our Solutions Architects have, you get pulled in to win it. This is not a support role. You are an engineer who owns the customer outcome. You'll cover accounts across APJ from