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Forward Deployed Engineer

Exa· GTM
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San Francisco, California$150k - $275kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers are the technical tip of the spear at Exa, embedding with customers to turn complex integrations into production wins. They ship code in the morning and close deals in the afternoon, working across product, engineering, and customer success to solve real problems with Exa's API.

Responsibilities

  • Take a customer from first cold outbound to production integration to closed deal
  • Build and ship demos, tutorials, and sample applications that show what Exa can do
  • Debug and resolve technical issues across the full stack, from API behavior to frontend rendering
  • Identify patterns in customer feedback and translate them into product improvements, shipping fixes yourself when possible
  • Run many sales and technical calls each week, adapting your pitch to CTOs, engineers, and PMs alike
  • Analyze usage data and customer interactions to spot churn risk early and drive expansion

Qualifications

  • Several years of programming experience. You could build and deploy a production server from scratch
  • Track record of high performance in demanding environments, whether that's a top CS program, a competitive sport, a startup, or something else entirely
  • Comfort with direct customer interaction. You've sold something, supported someone, or otherwise held your own in high-stakes conversations
  • High tolerance for context-switching, ambiguity, and sustained intensity
  • Willingness to travel as needed for customer engagements

Skills

Required:ProgrammingCustomer engagement

Benefits

  • premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
  • fertility benefits
  • monthly wellness stipend
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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