Research Engineer

Firecrawl Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• You'll build the evaluation systems that tell us whether Firecrawl actually works.
• That sounds simple. It isn't. Our core promise, convert any URL into clean, structured, LLM-ready data reliably, is hard to measure rigorously across millions of different websites, formats, and edge cases.
• As the systems we're measuring get more complex, the question "did that work?" gets harder, not easier.
• This isn't an eval role where you inherit a framework and run benchmarks. You'll design the metrics, build the pipelines, generate the datasets, and own the feedback loop from output quality back to model and product decisions.
• If you care about what "good" actually means and have the engineering depth to measure it, this is the role.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years in ML, research engineering, or data-heavy backend, with real evaluation work
• You have the engineering depth to build real evaluation systems, not just run existing ones
• You care deeply about what "good" means and how to measure it rigorously
• You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems where the metric itself has to be invented
• You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary that makes sense — $210,000-$275,000/year (U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
• Own a piece — 0.01% - 0.05% equity in what you're helping build
• Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge
• Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents
• Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
• Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
• Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
• Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new

Skills & Technologies

GitHub

Remote

$210k-275k

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About Firecrawl Inc.

Firecrawl Inc. provides an API that converts entire websites into clean markdown or structured data. Designed for AI applications, the service crawls all accessible subpages, renders dynamic content, and returns LLM-ready output without requiring sitemaps. It includes built-in scraping, search, and extraction capabilities for building knowledge bases, fine-tuning datasets, or powering chatbots. The company targets developers and data teams who need reliable web content ingestion at scale, offering cloud-hosted endpoints and self-hosted options under a usage-based pricing model.

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