Principal Field Engineer, US Remote

The role

You will build demos, workshops, and training content to show what Exa can do. You will represent the company at events and act as a subject-matter expert across the business.

What you will do

• Build flagship demos, sample apps, cookbooks and reference architectures
• Design and deliver workshops, hands-on labs and technical webinars
• Create on-demand training content including video tutorials and self-paced courses
• Represent Exa at conference talks, booth demos, hackathons and partner events
• Start and run meetups and user groups in key cities
• Act as subject-matter expert on Exa products, search quality, evals and agent use cases
• Join key deals and customer escalations
• Turn new launches into field-ready material
• Partner with Marketing on technical content, blog posts and events
• Bring developer feedback back to Product

Required qualifications

• Several years of hands-on programming experience
• 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role
• Track record of teaching and presenting to technical audiences
• Strong communication skills
• Self-directed
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, including internationally

Nice to have

• Spoken at developer conferences, run a meetup, or built a community around a technical product
• Built with LLMs, RAG or agents and can talk credibly about retrieval and search quality
• A following or a body of public work: open-source projects, technical blog posts, talks, videos
• Thrive in early-stage environments where your job description changes monthly

Benefits

• Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Fertility benefits
• 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 building a search engine for the AI era. The company is a largely SF-based team of ~100.