Agent Experience Engineer

Firecrawl is looking for a high-agency product-minded engineer with strong experimental and data instincts to own how agents discover understand and use Firecrawl. Youll ship fast run rigorous A/B tests and turn what you learn into a better product for an audience that isnt human.

This is not a pure research or data science role. We want an engineer who brings scientific rigor to product development: forming hypotheses running experiments analyzing results and shipping better agent experiences. Prior agent experience is valuable but raw engineering ability shipping velocity and learning speed matter most.

Salary Range: $235000$260000 USD/year (SF) / $217000$233000 CAD/year (Toronto)

Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco CA (SF HQ) or Toronto ON (Toronto Hub). Hybrid onsite 3 days a week.

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5 years

Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Were not able to sponsor US visas right now. For Canada well consider sponsorship on a case-by-case basis through our Toronto Hub.

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Its the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits solved.

In September 2026 we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital and were spending it building the largest repository of knowledge in the world. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 187k GitHub stars putting us in the top 40 repositories of all time and developers agents and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare and were just getting started.

Were a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company end to end and runs it themselves. No hiding behind process or headcount.

This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast go deep and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web. That library is called Alexandria and it starts now.

• Design and ship A/B tests across agent-facing surfaces (MCPs CLIs skills APIs documentation) to see how agents actually use Firecrawl

• Turn experiment results into shipped product improvements fast

• Track emerging agent tools models and harnesses (Hermes OpenClaw and whatevers next) closely enough to know what they mean for us

• Form hypotheses about how agents discover interpret and select tools and capabilities then test them in production

• Own the problem end to end from question to shipped answer

• Bring scientific rigor to product development without turning it into a research project

• A track record of shipping high-quality products fast. Not prototypes not decks

• Comfort designing A/B tests reading behavioral data and acting on what it tells you

• Familiarity with agent-facing surfaces: MCPs CLIs skills APIs documentation

• You actively follow emerging AI tools models and harnesses. Hermes OpenClaw whatevers next

• Genuine curiosity about how agents select tools interpret capabilities and interact with products

• High agency. You can operate independently in a space that doesnt have a playbook yet

• Often an ex-founder early startup engineer prolific open-source contributor or someone with impressive public work

• Someone looking for a pure research or data science role. This is a shipping job first

• Someone who needs a mapped-out roadmap before they can move

• Someone who treats experimentation as a report to write rather than a lever to pull

• Someone excited by agents in theory who hasnt actually built for them

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what were building wont stay open forever. If that excites you keep reading. If it doesnt no hard feelings but this role probably isnt for you.

• Salary that makes sense: $235000$260000 USD/year (SF) / $217000$233000 CAD/year (Toronto) based on impact not tenure

• Own a piece: Gain competitive equity in what youre 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 USD/month for the gym therapy massages or whatever keeps you human

• Learning & Development: Expense up to $1000 USD/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 partner and kids). No weird loopholes just care that works

• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D short-term disability and long-term disability. Coverage for lifes curveballs

• Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you

• Mental health: Talkspace therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

• Fertility and family building: Carrot covering you and your partner

• EAP: Free confidential counseling legal and financial consults and online will prep through Guardian

• 401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off but future-you will thank you

• Pre-tax benefits: HSA FSA and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit

• Supplemental options: Extra life and AD&D accident critical illness hospital indemnity plus pet legal and identity protection through MetLife

• Full coverage no red tape: Extended health dental and vision through Manulife (Diamond the top tier) 100% employer-paid for you your partner and your kids

• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid life AD&D short-term disability and long-term disability. Coverage for lifes curveballs

• Virtual care: Dialogue Premium so you can see a doctor or nurse from your couch any hour

• Mental health: Talkspace Elite therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

• Fertility and family building: Carrot covering you and your partner

• Retirement: Group RRSP through Wealthsimple so future-you can thank you

• 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

• Toronto Hub perks: Snacks drinks team lunches glass-walled views down University Avenue and a home base steps from Union Station

• Transit covered: A PRESTO card loaded for GO Transit subway and streetcar plus station parking if you drive to the train. Winter-proof on us

Application Review: Send us your resume and a link to something youve built. We care about what youve actually shipped not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (25 min): A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. Well talk about what youve been working on what drew you to Firecrawl and what youre looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (45 min): Well walk through something youve built and a real agent-experience problem from our world. Come ready to think out loud. We care how you reason and experiment not whether you know the right answer going in.

Founder Chat (25 min): Culture pace ownership and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (40 Hours): Ship something real with the team paid at a contractor rate. Its the truest signal for both sides. You see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like and we see how you operate.

Decision: We move fast after the trial.

If you want to define how agents experience the web from the ground up you should join us.

Apply now.

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