# Developer Advocate

**Company:** [Exa](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/exa)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Developer Relations
**Salary:** $130k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** LLMs, agents, retrieval, Python, JavaScript, API Integrations
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Build reference apps, demos, integrations, and technical talks using Exa's AI search API to inspire developers. Requires 3+ years building with LLMs/agents/retrieval, strong communication skills, and public artifacts like repos or talks.

## Job Description

## 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.

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