Technical Sourcer

The role

You will build the sourcing function from scratch and recruit for engineering and research roles. You will use Exa's search tools and agentic workflows to find and enrich candidate lists.

What you will do

• Build Exa's sourcing function from scratch
• Perform outbound sequencing, messaging, and intro calls across LinkedIn, email, and community platforms
• Write cold outreach that converts
• Use Exa's search tools and agentic workflows to find and enrich candidate lists
• Experiment with non-obvious sourcing channels like GitHub, conference attendee lists, Discord communities, and research publications
• Partner with founders and engineering leaders to understand hiring profiles
• Build and iterate on recruiting systems and workflows

Required qualifications

• 3+ years sourcing or recruiting for engineering and research roles at a startup or high-growth company
• Experience sourcing passive candidates
• Strong written communicator
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building without a playbook
• Curious about AI tools and willing to use Exa's own products as part of your workflow
• SF startup familiarity

Benefits

• Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Fertility benefits
• Monthly wellness stipend

Before you apply

• Open to sponsoring 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 infra to crawl the web, train embedding models, and design vector databases.