IT Engineer
- 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
- Head of Security posted Sep 1
- Software Engineer, Intern posted Aug 28
- Software Engineer, Security posted Aug 27
- Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems posted Jun 14
- Software Engineer, Backend posted Jun 7
- Software Engineer, Full Stack posted May 20
- Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems posted Dec 19
- Software Engineer, Web Crawling posted Dec 10
- Software Engineer, Web Crawling posted Jul 23
- Software Engineer, Backend posted Jun 26
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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