Research Engineer, Generalist
SingaporeSGD 90k - SGD 300kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Generalist Research Engineers work across the search and retrieval stack (crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms) to improve end quality of search endpoints for customers at Exa, an applied AI lab building a massive-scale search infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance
- Improve throughput and latency of ML models
- Make our web crawler 3x faster
Qualifications
- High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system
- Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep
- You're excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more
- Comfortable working across different systems, and shipping fast
- You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
Skills
Required:Attention to detailSystems thinking across crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithmsFast shipping across diverse systems
Benefits
- premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- fertility benefits
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- monthly wellness stipend
Last updated Jul 15, 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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