Exa
Design Engineer
San Francisco, California. Posted 4 months ago
The role
You will design and build developer-facing experiences across Exa's product, playground, documentation, website, and brand. You will work with product and engineering to move from early ideas and prototypes to polished, production-ready experiences.
What you will do
- 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
Required qualifications
- 4+ years designing and building software
- Portfolio of polished, interactive products or prototypes
- Strong visual and interaction design skills for complex technical products
- Fluent in Figma
- Fluent in React
- Fluent in TypeScript or JavaScript
- Fluent in HTML/CSS
- Think in reusable components
- Use coding agents to explore, prototype, and ship ideas
- Independently identify opportunities, communicate clearly, and work well through ambiguity
Benefits
- Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Fertility benefits
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- Monthly wellness stipend
Before you apply
- We're happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3)
About the company
Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine. They build massive-scale infrastructure to crawl the web, train embedding models, and develop vector databases.