Design Engineer at Exa | San Francisco, CA | Rezi

Design Engineer at Exa

Design Engineer

Exa · San Francisco, CA

3 weeks ago

Design Engineer

Exa · San Francisco, CA

a month ago
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About the Role

Exa is seeking a Designer with strong visual taste to 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 product judgment. This role is ideal for a versatile designer who enjoys rapidly iterating on a variety of projects.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Exa's product design across all platforms and touch points.
  • Explore visual designs in Figma or Claude/Codex/Cursor and translate them into web-native experiences.
  • Iterate on the future of agent-native experiences, considering how autonomous agents change product discovery, integration, and building.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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 judgment.
  • 3+ years of experience, with ideally at least 1-2 years of in-house design experience.
  • Thrive in high velocity, high growth, scrappy startup environments.

Skills

  • Figma
  • Sketch
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • UX/UI principles
  • Visual design
  • Interaction design
  • Prototyping

Location

  • San Francisco

Work Type

  • In-person
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 3+ years of experience
  • 1-2 years of in-house design experience

Benefits

  • Premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision)
  • Fertility benefits
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
  • Monthly wellness stipend

About the Company

  • 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.
  • We have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.
  • Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google.
  • We are building massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information.