Forward Deployed Engineer
Exa - San Francisco, California | OnSite
Posted Jun 10, 2026
Benefits
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $116,543 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +9.8% - Much faster than average
Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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Company
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- Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role
Forward Deployed Engineer San Francisco, California | OnSite 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. Read more https://exa.ai/blog/announcing-series-c 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 & 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. As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Exa, you'll bridge the gap between engineering and sales by working closely with both our customers and engineering. This requires someone who can program and also sell -- a killer combo! Who You Are - Several years of programming experience (Ex. could build a server in node.js) - Have experience talking to customers, whether you were a consultant or a barista - Excited to wear many hats (sales, marketing, backend, frontend, etc) - Care about the problem of finding high quality knowledge and recognize how important this is for the world What You'll Do - Take a series B company from first outbound call to deal closed - Build cool coding tutorials demonstrating the Exa API -
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