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Exa

IT Engineer

San Francisco, California
Salary
$150K - $195K
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

Not stated in the posting: visa.

Open. First seen 15 September 2026.

About the role

Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.

Exa's standard text

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you.

As an IT Engineer, you'd work on everything that keeps Exa running. From IT infrastructure and device management, security, compliance, internal tooling, and onboarding.

What You'll Do

  • Have experience working on end to end from device procurement, MDM, identity and access management, and endpoint security
  • Help with office buildouts and operations as Exa scales
  • Help Exans troubleshooting different IT issues
  • Set up and manage AV and conference room infrastructure so the team can move fast without friction
  • Help make sure new Exans are set up during onboarding so everyone is productive from day one

What We're Looking For

  • Experience working in IT at a fast-growing startup
  • Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001)
  • Experience with identity and access management
  • Has experience with AV and conference room infrastructure
Exa's standard text

Exa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related conditions, criminal histories consistent with applicable law, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

IAM

Rare in Exa's other 31 open postings.

In most of Exa's ads

Vector Databases

Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.

67% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Exa's standard text, folded away below.

Read against Exa's other open postings on this site.

The team: Engineering

This role is one of 11 open in Engineering.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Vector Databases (11 of 11), C++ (5 of 11), Rust (5 of 11), TypeScript (3 of 11), IAM (2 of 11), JavaScript (2 of 11), Playwright (2 of 11)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Exa's own job board.

Salary context

13 other open postings titled IT Engineer state a salary: median USD 120,000 to USD 165,000 a year.

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