Exa
Developer Advocate
$130K–$230K
San Francisco, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years as a software engineer, developer advocate, or a mix.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available for exceptional candidates; applicants from all backgrounds and locations are welcome.
About the job
Builds and presents demos, reference applications, and integrations using Exa’s API to help developers adopt it, while supporting the developer community and relaying product feedback.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain demos, reference applications, and integrations for developer use cases.
- Give technical talks, workshops, streams, and public developer support.
- Report developer friction to Product and Engineering and work with DevRel and Technical PMM on community and content efforts.
What they ask for
- 3+ years as a software engineer, developer advocate, or a mix, with code to show.
- Experience building with LLMs, agents, and retrieval.
- Public artifacts such as repos, talks, streams, tutorials, or side projects.
- Strong live technical communication and enthusiasm for helping developers.
Nice to have
- Recognizable open-source contributions.
- Experience at an API-first or developer tools company.
Pay
$130K – $230K (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, agents, retrieval
AI focus
Build with LLMs, agents, and retrieval; use AI tooling daily and share opinions about its limitations.
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