Developer Advocate

What You'll Own

Demos and reference applications

• Own a growing library of working code that shows Exa at its best: reference agents, integration examples, and demos built for specific developer use cases.
• Success is measured by usage, forks, and whether developers cite them as the reason they got started.

Technical talks and workshops

• Be a teacher, both in-person and on video.
• Represent Exa at conference talks, meetups, workshops, hackathons, and streams.
• Success is measured by quality of delivery and by developers who start building after seeing you.

Community presence and support

• Be genuinely useful in public forums: answering questions, unblocking developers, participating in the communities where our users are.
• Success is measured by response quality and audience trust.

Integration work

• Build and maintain integrations with the frameworks and tools developers use.
• Success is measured by integrations that stay working as upstream changes.

Developer feedback

• Carry friction back to Product and Engineering with the specificity only a builder can provide: what broke, where you got stuck, and what a new developer would abandon.
• Success is measured by fixes shipped because you reported them well.

What Success Looks Like

• A steady stream of working demos that developers actually clone and run.
• Talks and workshops that convert attention into first API calls.
• Developers recognize you as helpful in the communities that matter to us.
• Integrations we own stay healthy, not abandoned after launch.
• Product hears about developer friction from you before it shows up in churn.
• Marketing and sales pull your demos into their material because they are the clearest thing we have.

Who You Are

• 3+ years as a software engineer, developer advocate, or a mix, with code you can show us.
• Real fluency in the AI stack. You have built with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, and you can speak about what worked and what didn't.
• Public artifacts: repos, talks, streams, tutorials, or side projects.
• Strong live communication. You can teach something technical to a room and hold their attention.
• Genuine enthusiasm for helping other developers, including the unglamorous version of that in a support thread at 9pm.
• Comfort working in public and taking technical criticism without getting defensive.
• AI-native working habits: you build with AI tooling daily and have opinions about where it falls short.

Nice to Have

• Open source contributions developers would recognize.
• Experience at an API-first or developer tools company.
• A following or reputation in the AI developer community.
• Experience running workshops or hackathon mentoring.
• Range beyond code: video, writing, or design skills that make your demos land harder.

Benefits

• Health and wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a monthly wellness benefit and a monthly commuter benefit for our SF team.
• Fertility and family planning: Reimbursement for eligible egg freezing and related medical expenses up to a $15,000 lifetime maximum, plus 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Life at Exa: Lunch and dinner served daily, an office stocked with snacks, coffee, and health supplements, fresh bread from a local bakery every morning, weekly milk tea deliveries, monthly picnics, and parties.
• Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates.