Design Engineer

About the Company

Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to understand it, and develop high-performance vector databases to retrieve information from it.

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

Requirements

• 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, and HTML/CSS
• Ability to think in reusable components
• Experience using coding agents to explore, prototype, and ship ideas
• Ability to work independently through ambiguity

Benefits

• Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Fertility benefits
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Monthly wellness stipend