# Research Engineer, Generalist

**Company:** [Exa](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/exa)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $350k/yr
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Crawling, Parsing, Retrieval Algorithms, Vector Databases, Embedding Models
**Posted:** 2026-07-07

> Generalist Research Engineer working across Exa's search and retrieval stack including crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms to improve search quality and performance for customers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance
- Improve throughput and latency of ML models
- Make our web crawler 3x faster
- Work across the search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms
- Improve end quality of search endpoints for customers

## Requirements
- High attention to detail; ability to simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system
- Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep
- Excited to work across search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more
- Comfortable working across different systems, and shipping fast
- Care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building massive-scale ML systems

## Compensation
- Salary range: $180,000 - $350,000

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