Software Engineer, Intern

The role

You will play a critical role in various projects. You may recreate Google-level keyword search, build a crawling system, or build a custom vector database.

What you will do

• Recreate Google-level keyword search over 10 billion pages in 1 month
• Build a state-of-the-art crawling system that works optimally for any website
• Build a custom vector database that runs over a billion vectors in under 100ms

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field
• Willing to take off a semester to work full time in SF
• Experience with some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)
• Code technically difficult or interesting projects for fun
• Care about the problem of finding high quality information

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.