Solutions Architect, India

ABOUT EXA

We raised a $250M Series C to build the search engine for AIs. Led by a16z, with existing investors Benchmark, Lightspeed, and YC doubling down, the round brings Exa's valuation to $2.2 billion.

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, and dropouts alike.

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Solutions Architects are the technical tip of the spear in Exa's presales motion. From the first call to the technical win, you're the person who shows prospects what Exa can do and proves it works for their use case. You partner with Account Executives on new accounts and new opportunities, and you're measured on technical wins, POC conversion, and pipeline velocity.

You'll run discovery with engineers and executives, build demos that land, design and run workshops and proofs of concept, and make the technical case for Exa against alternatives. When a deal needs specialist depth, you pull in our Forward Deployed Engineers. When a deal closes, you hand the customer off to them with everything they need to get to production fast. This is not a demo-only role. You are an engineer who sells. You will cover accounts across APJ.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

- Lead the technical side of new opportunities alongside Account Executives, from first call through technical win

- Run discovery to understand a prospect's use case, architecture, data needs, and success criteria, and qualify where Exa fits

- Build and deliver tailored demos, sample apps, and prototypes that show what Exa can do on the prospect's own problem

- Design and run workshops and POCs with clear success criteria, timelines, and evaluation plans, then drive them to a decision

- Win technical evaluations by benchmarking Exa on quality, latency, and cost, and making a clear case against alternatives

- Handle technical objections and answer security, compliance, and architecture questions

- Bring in Forward Deployed Engineers as specialists when a deal needs deeper expertise, and run a clean handoff to them after close

- Feed market signal back to Product: what prospects ask for, where we lose, and what would help us win

- Build reusable presales assets such as demo environments, reference architectures, and evaluation playbooks

REQUIREMENTS

- Several years of hands-on programming experience. You can build compelling demos, implement POCs end to end, and design and run rigorous evals in head-to-head competitive scenarios

- 2+ years of hands-on presales or technical sales experience, ideally at an AI-native or developer-first company.