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Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine – Query Engine

Exa
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Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine – Query Engine at Exa. This role involves owning the query engine that searches hundreds of billions of claims across various retrieval backends, including graph, vector, full-text, time-series, and geospatial indexes. The engineer will make foundational decisions on storage layout, indexing, query language, and query planning.

Skills and focus areas

  • distributed systems
  • data layout
  • partitioning
  • indexing
  • query planning
  • cost-based optimization
  • graph databases
  • vector databases
  • full-text search
  • time-series databases
  • geospatial indexing
  • system design

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