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Does Exa ask for AI skills in its job ads?

Live dataFrom its Ashby job board · Last updated 29 October 2026

Above average

40%of Exa’s 50 open roles ask the candidate to use AI

  1. Exa 40%
  2. All 1,333 companies 25%
Rank
#183 of 786
Open roles
50
Ask for AI
20
As a requirement
22%
Tool named most
ChatGPT

How many Exa job ads ask for AI

  • 40% of Exa’s 50 open roles ask the candidate to use AI in the work: 20 job ads, 15 points above the 25% across 1,333 software companies.
  • Exa ranks 183 of 786 companies with 10 or more open roles.
  • It asks most in marketing ads: 8 of 10.
  • The AI tool its ads name most is ChatGPT.

Which Exa roles ask for AI skills

  1. Engineering (13) 31%
  2. Sales (10) 20%
  3. Marketing (10) 80%
  4. People and recruiting (4) 25%
  5. Product (3) 33%
  6. Data (3) 0%
Share of Exa’s open roles in each role that ask for AI. Roles with 3 or more open roles.Source: Lemonsignal

What Exa’s job ads say about AI

  • “Genuinely AI-native — you already use LLMs and agents as leverage in your daily work and have built things with them.”

    Business Operations

  • “Experience leveraging AI tools in your daily work.”

    Commercial Counsel

  • “You use coding agents to explore, prototype, and ship ideas.”

    Design Engineer

How we counted AI skills in Exa’s job ads

From the 50 open roles on Exa’s public Ashby job board on 29 October 2026. An ad counts when it asks the person to use AI in their own work. The full method. Work at Exa and see something wrong? Tell us.

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