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Design Engineer

Exa· Product
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San Francisco, California$150k - $280k + equityFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Design Engineer with exceptional visual taste and strong front-end craft to design and build developer-facing experiences across Exa’s product, playground, documentation, website, and brand. Collaborates with product and engineering from early ideas to polished, production-ready experiences; no traditional handoff between design and engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Work with product and engineering from early exploration through launch
  • Design and build polished experiences across Exa’s product, playground, documentation, and website
  • Move fluidly between design and code to explore ideas, prototype interactions, and refine implementation
  • Design new ways for people and agents to discover, integrate, debug, and build with Exa
  • Identify high-impact product opportunities and turn them into clear, polished experiences

Qualifications

  • 4+ years designing and building software
  • Portfolio of polished, interactive products or prototypes
  • Strong visual and interaction design skills for complex technical products
  • Fluency in Figma, React, TypeScript or JavaScript, HTML/CSS; ability to think in reusable components
  • Experience using coding agents to explore, prototype, and ship ideas
  • Ability to identify opportunities independently, communicate clearly, and work well through ambiguity

Skills

Required:DesignFigmaReactTypeScript/JavaScriptHTML/CSSPrototype using coding agentsCommunication

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.
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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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