Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine – Query is open at Exa in San Francisco, California. The posting gives a salary of $180K - $350K. Posted on Oct 22, 2026, and still on Exa’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
, you'll own the query engine that searches hundreds of billions of claims across a variety of retrieval backends, from a distributed graph database to vector, full-text, time-series and geospatial indexes. This is greenfield work with a massive scope. No off-the-shelf system answers precise questions over hundreds of billions of evidence-backed claims at agent speed, so you'll make foundational decisions, from…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Exa’s careers page.
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