Design Engineer

Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn’t been disrupted since the 90s. We're a largely SF-based team of ~100 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders & dropouts alike.

We recently raised an $85M Series B from Benchmark, and we are rapidly building the most intelligent search engine in history. We’re high agency, low-ego, and united by the feeling that this is one of the last problems worth getting right.

We're looking for a Designer with strong visual taste to help drive rich, developer-friendly experiences across web and brand.

Designers at Exa have broad creative license, and the freedom to create and lead new initiatives based on your best product judgement. We expect a broad set of skills and the ability to create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes. If you are a versatile designer who enjoys rapidly iterating on a variety of projects, this might be the right role for you.

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  Lead Exa's product design across all platforms and touch points.

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  Explore visual designs in Figma or Claude/Codex/Cursor and translate them into web-native experiences.

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  Iterate on the future of agent-native experiences: how does this new wave of autonomous agents change the way that people discover, integrate, and build with our product?

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  Identify and pursue new areas of product growth; create and iterate on product flows and high-fidelity visuals.

• Work with front-end engineering to develop the flow, layout, and features of our API playground.

• Design novel onboarding, documentation, and debugging experiences that are seamless with coding agent workflows.

• Proficiency in design tools like Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite.

• Experience using coding agents to ship projects and iterate on designs.

• Strong curiosity for the latest tools: coding agents, design libraries, shaders.

• Expertise in UX/UI principles for complex technical products.

• A strong perspective and good judgement. 3+ years of experience, with ideally at least 1-2 years of in-house design experience.

• You thrive in high velocity, high growth, scrappy startup environments

This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3) In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.