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title: 'Product Engineer - Parse at Firecrawl'
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last_seen: '2026-09-08'
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# Product Engineer - Parse at Firecrawl

- **Company:** Firecrawl
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $235k–$260k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/4fed8a26-d8e1-47b1-9283-59e547e6e02a

## Job description

## PRODUCT ENGINEER - PARSE

You'll build the endpoint developers reach for when they need to turn documents (PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, and more) into clean, layout-aware data an AI can actually use. Parse takes a local or non-public file and returns LLM-ready markdown or structured JSON in a single call, with tables, headings, footnotes, and reading order preserved. This is hands-on product engineering at the core of what Firecrawl does: shipping the document-parsing features that thousands of developers hit every day, owning them from idea to production, and obsessing over the details that make an API a joy to build on. You'll ship real product from day one, not tickets in a backlog.

Salary Range: $235,000–$260,000/year

Equity Range: Competitive equity — details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 3+ years building and shipping developer-facing product

Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.

## ABOUT FIRECRAWL

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 - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.

We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 175k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.

We're 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.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and ship developer-facing document-parsing features from idea to production
- Own the reliability and quality of parsed output across PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, and more, including the messy scanned and mixed-format files that break traditional parsers
- Turn hard, ambiguous problems (layout detection, table structure, reading order, OCR routing) into clean APIs developers love to use
- Work directly with the engineering team on the roadmap and the tradeoffs behind it
- Dogfood the product, read the GitHub issues, and let real developer pain drive what you build

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- You've built and shipped developer-facing product that people actually used
- You care about developer experience like a designer cares about pixels: latency, output schema, docs, the whole feel of it
- You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped features
- You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper

## WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR

- Someone who needs a fully-specced ticket to start
- A strong backend engineer who's indifferent to how the product feels to use
- Someone who optimizes for process over shipping

## A NOTE ON PACE

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.

## BENEFITS & PERKS

## AVAILABLE TO ALL EMPLOYEES

- Salary that makes sense — $235,000–$260,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
- Own a piece — Gain competitive 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

## AVAILABLE TO US-BASED FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES

- Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works
- Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs
- Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind
- 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) to help your wallet out a bit
- Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too

## AVAILABLE TO SF-BASED EMPLOYEES

- 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. Show us what you've shipped — products, features, APIs developers actually used. We care about what you've built, not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (~45 min) — We'll dig into a real problem from our world — pulling reliable structured data out of a hostile PDF, or designing a parsing API developers love — and talk through how you'd approach it. Come ready to think out loud; we care how you reason, not whether you memorized the answer.

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

Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) — Work with the team on a real, scoped piece of the product — paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides: you see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you ship. Remote-friendly, and we'll flex around your current commitments.

Decision — We move fast after the trial.

If you want to build the products that turn the chaos of documents and the web into something developers and agents can actually use, you should join us.

👉 Apply now.

## About Firecrawl

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Firecrawl provides an API that allows AI systems to search, scrape, and interact with web content at scale, converting it into clean, structured data for LLMs and AI-native software.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Caleb Peffer (CEO), Eric Ciarla (Chief Growth Officer), Nicolas Silberstein Camara (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Infrastructure for AI / Web Data Extraction
- **Target customers**: B2B, developers, AI engineers, data scientists, and companies building LLM-based applications and agents
- **Mission statement**: "To make web data work for AI — cleanly, scalably, and in real time." The company describes itself as "building the eyes for AGI."

## Products & Services
- **[Firecrawl API](https://www.firecrawl.dev/)**: A unified API that turns the live internet into clean Markdown and structured data for LLMs, agents, and AI-native software. Core capabilities include:
  - **Search**: Searches the web and returns full page content (not just links) for real-time context and RAG pipelines.
  - **Scrape**: Converts any URL into clean markdown, structured JSON, screenshots, or semantic text.
  - **Interact**: Cloud sandboxes for agents that can click buttons, fill forms, and navigate dynamic content using natural language or code.
  - **Crawl**: Crawls websites at scale with blazing speed (P95 latency of 3.4s) and industry-leading reliability (covers 96% of the web, including JS-heavy pages).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$16.2M** (Seed from Y Combinator, Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners (Lead, Series A), Abhinav Asthana (CEO of Postman), Tobias Lutke (CEO of Shopify), Matt McClure (Founder of Mux)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - One of the fastest growing open source projects in the world with **125K+ GitHub stars** (one of the top 100 repos on GitHub)
  - **1.25M+ weekly downloads**
  - **150K+ developers signed up**
  - **5B+ requests served**
  - **125K+ companies using Firecrawl**
  - The company states it plans to hit **$100M in ARR with fewer than 50 people**

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Unlike duct-taping together proxies, scrapers, orchestrators, and post-processing logic, Firecrawl offers a single API for search, scrape, crawl, and interact — purpose-built for AI.
- **Speed and reliability**: P95 latency of 3.4s and 96% web coverage, including JavaScript-heavy pages, making it production-ready for real-time agents.
- **Open source dominance**: Being one of the top 100 repos on GitHub creates massive community adoption, trust, and a built-in distribution channel.
- **Founder-market fit**: The team previously built Mendable and SideGuide, giving them deep experience in the AI and developer tooling space.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the platform to handle increasing demand, expanding the "Interact" capability for agentic workflows, and maintaining leadership in the web-to-LLM data pipeline space.
- **Direction for growth**: Building the foundational infrastructure for AI-native software where "intelligence isn't an add-on, it's part of the core." The company is hiring aggressively across engineering, research, and growth roles to achieve its $100M ARR target with a lean team.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Founder-led environment — 80% of the team are former founders, 80% have a developer background. The company values "extreme speed" and ships rapidly.
- **Remote/Hybrid policy**: Hybrid in San Francisco, CA OR Remote in the Americas (UTC-3 to UTC-10). Full-time positions with visa sponsorship available.
- **Team size**: Lean team of approximately 12 people currently, with a philosophy of staying small and efficient.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on a high-impact, open-source project that is foundational to the AI ecosystem. The company is backed by top-tier investors and has massive traction, offering significant growth potential for early employees.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building the "eyes for AGI" — working at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure, with roles spanning product engineering, research engineering (Search/IR, Reinforcement Learning, Evals), and growth engineering.

## Sources
1. [firecrawl.dev/about](https://www.firecrawl.dev/about)
2. [firecrawl.dev](https://www.firecrawl.dev/)
3. [firecrawl.dev/careers](https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers)
4. [trymatchbox.com](https://www.trymatchbox.com/startups/70a1509f-8242-4a51-83ee-516a9ce596d5)
5. [github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl](https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl)

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