Firecrawl
The easiest way to extract AI ready data from the web
Founding AI Engineer
About the role
Firecrawl is the easiest way for developers to gather LLM-ready data from the web. Our mission is to empower AI developers with the highest-quality, structured web data—seamlessly. We’re growing rapidly and looking for an ambitious, resourceful, and execution-driven AI Engineer to join our founding team.
The Opportunity
As a Founding AI Engineer, you'll work at the cutting edge of data extraction with AI. You’ll build AI infrastructure (Agents, RAG pipelines, model fine-tuning and training), contribute to our open-source frameworks, and ship AI-driven products that power real-world applications. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love solving deep technical problems, and want to build something groundbreaking, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
- Architect and optimize RAG pipelines, agent-based architectures, and other LLM-driven systems.
- Fine-tune LLM models towards structured data extraction
- Build developer-friendly APIs that power AI-powered web automation at scale.
- Contribute to Firecrawl’s open-source repositories
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship AI-powered features.
- Stay at the forefront of AI research, incorporating state-of-the-art techniques into our platform.
Who You Are
- A proven track record of shipping high-performance AI products.
- Open minded, curious individual that experiments with AI and AI agents everyday.
- Experience in AI/ML, NLP, or LLM-powered systems.
- Strong fundamentals in NLP, deep learning, and ML infrastructure.
- Experience scaling AI infra
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience building with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis.
- Significant contributions to top open-source AI/ML projects.
- Have fine-tuned or trained your own model
Why Firecrawl?
- High-impact role: Join as a core member of a rapidly growing startup.
- Cutting-edge AI work: Work on real-world AI applications that serves thousands of users.
- Startup pace: Ship features in days, not months.
- Competitive salary + strong equity: Build alongside a world-class team.
- Culture of ownership: Autonomy, growth, and responsibility.
Ready to build the future of AI-powered data infrastructure? Apply now and join Firecrawl’s founding team!
Salary expectation: we pay local rates - hence the large range in the post. Here is a more in depth explanation on why we do so: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/culture/all-remote/remote-compensation/
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About the interview
Our process is fast, transparent, and designed to respect your time.
- 15-min intro call – Discuss your background and goals.
- 1-hour deep dive – Talk about your technical experience and approach to AI.
- Take-home challenge (2-3 hours) – Showcase problem-solving skills.
- Culture fit & review (30 min - 1 hour) – Final discussion and offer.
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. We crossed 19k GitHub stars in just 6 months and have had paying customers since day one.
Previously, we built Mendable, one of the first commercially available “chat with your data” applications. We sold to companies like MongoDB, Coinbase, Snapchat, and more. To do this, we spent a surprising amount of time building reliable infrastructure for getting clean data from the web. When we started to see our founding friends rebuilding the same thing, we thought we might be on to something.
