Search Engineer

Search Engineer at Firecrawl

Build the systems that let anyone turn the open web into a search index. Firecrawl's search product is one of the fastest-growing surfaces, and this role owns ranking quality and relevance from day one; the crawling and indexing systems exist to serve it.

What You'll Do:

- Own ranking quality and relevance for LLM-driven retrieval — the core of this role.

- Design and build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems behind Firecrawl Search

- Push down latency and cost per query while search volume grows

- Own services end to end — design, ship, monitor, and iterate in production

- Work directly with the Head of Search and the rest of the search team on the roadmap

What We're Looking For:

- 3+ years building search/retrieval systems in production, with ranking and relevance as your primary muscle

- Care about latency, cost, and correctness in equal measure

- Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped systems

- Move fast and close the loop — ship, measure, and iterate over perfecting on paper

Technical Gap This Hire Fills: Owned ranking and relevance — someone who has driven relevance quality in production and can point to the metric they moved.

Compensation: $190,000–$260,000/year + competitive equity. Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA.