Technical Recruiter

The role

You will own the technical recruiting cycle end-to-end and work with founders to scale the company. You will use in-house agentic search tools to build recruiting systems and identify high-leverage hires.

What you will do

• Own the technical recruiting cycle end-to-end: sourcing, outreach, interviews, and closing
• Represent Exa externally to convince engineers, researchers, and operators to join
• Partner with founders and team leads to scope roles and identify high-leverage hires
• Build and optimize recruiting systems and workflows using Exa's in-house agentic search tools
• Experiment with creative sourcing strategies
• Help shape Exa's talent brand and recruiting culture

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience recruiting for technical roles in startups or high-growth tech companies
• Familiarity with SF startup culture
• Strong communication skills
• Technical literacy
• A builder mindset
• Comfort in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment

Nice to have

• can code yourself
• technical background

Benefits

• premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• fertility benefits
• monthly wellness stipend

Before you apply

• We are 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.