[Hiring] Product Engineer — Search @Firecrawl

Role Description

You'll own the developer-facing search experience at Firecrawl — taking the retrieval and ranking improvements coming out of research and shipping them as a product developers can't stop using. This isn't a pure research role and it isn't a pure backend role. You sit at the intersection: you understand how the systems work deeply enough to improve them, and you care about how they feel to use obsessively enough to make them great. At a 26-person company, the gap between research and shipped product is exactly one person. You're that person.

What You'll Do

• Ship search improvements that developers notice.
• Take retrieval and ranking improvements from research and turn them into product changes that make developers say "this just works."
• Own the search API end-to-end.
• Dogfood relentlessly.
• Translate research into product decisions.
• Run fast product experiments.
• Raise the bar on developer experience.

Qualifications

• Obsessive about developer experience.
• Speaks both product and engineering fluently.
• Hands-on builder who ships.
• Has a feel for search as a product.
• Brings production instincts.

Requirements

• 3+ years in applied RL, ML engineering, or model training — with production systems.
• US Citizenship/Visa required for SF; N/A for Remote.

Benefits

• Salary that makes sense — $180,000–$290,000/year, based on impact, not tenure.
• Own a piece — Up to 0.15% equity in what you're helping build.
• Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded).
• Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for moms and dads.
• 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.
• Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids).
• Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance.
• Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch.
• 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you.
• Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only).
• Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too.
• SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy.
• E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us.

Interview Process

• Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you.
• Intro Chat (~20 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other.
• Technical Deep Dive (~60 min) — Go deep on search products and APIs you've built.
• Founder Chat (~30 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work.
• Paid Work Trial (1–2 weeks) — Tackle a real search product problem with production implications.
• Decision — We move fast after the trial.