Product Engineer — Search

About this role

Join Firecrawl as a Product Engineer for Search, bridging research and shipping by owning the developer-facing search API end-to-end. You'll translate retrieval and ranking improvements into products developers love, focusing on latency, API ergonomics, and seamless integration while working in a fast-moving 26-person team.

What you'll do

• Ship search improvements from research into production features developers notice and use
• Own the search API end-to-end including response format, latency, error handling, and pagination
• Dogfood the API relentlessly by building with it and monitoring user feedback across GitHub, Discord, and support channels
• Collaborate with Search/IR and RL Research Engineers to translate technical work into product decisions
• Run fast product experiments with hypotheses, instrumentation, and rapid iteration cycles
• Raise the bar on developer experience by fixing API inconsistencies, error messages, and documentation gaps

What they're looking for

• 3+ years applied RL, ML engineering, or model training in production systems
• API design and developer experience optimization
• Full-stack shipping capability from design through deployment
• Search systems understanding (retrieval, ranking, semantic vs. keyword search)
• Production system operation and latency optimization
• Product thinking and technical decision-making
• Python or backend programming
• Data-driven experimentation and rapid iteration

Benefits

• Salary: $180,000–$290,000/year (U.S.-based, adjusted for cost of living internationally)
• Equity: Up to 0.15%
• Flexible location: San Francisco (hybrid) or Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)
• Full-time role at a fast-growing infrastructure company (8-figure ARR)
• Work with a small, technical team shipping essential AI infrastructure
• High autonomy and ownership of core product