Software Engineer, Intern
San Francisco, California$100k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Engineering internship at Exa, an applied AI lab building large-scale search infrastructure, embeddings models, and vector databases. In-person, SF-based internship with sponsorship for international candidates.
Responsibilities
- Recreate Google-level keyword search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
- Build a state-of-the-art crawling system that works optimally for any website
- Build a custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms
Qualifications
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field
- Willing to take off a semester to work full time in SF
- Experience with some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)
- You often code technically difficult or interesting projects for fun
- You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
Skills
Required:High performance programmingProblem solving in information retrieval
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Exa
Web search rebuilt for LLMs
Exa is a search engine built for AIs. We enable developers to filter the internet's content with complex queries in order to bring the world's knowledge into their AI apps.
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