Description
Research Engineer (Focused on Search/IR)\n\nYou'll own the search and information retrieval systems at the core of Firecrawl — the infrastructure that determines how we find, rank, index, and serve web content at scale. Retrieval quality is Firecrawl's deepest moat. As AI agents increasingly depend on multi-step search and enrichment, the gap between good retrieval and great retrieval compounds. You're the person who closes that gap — and widens it against every competitor. This is a full-stack search role where you'll build and operate everything from ingestion pipelines to serving layers. If you've built search indexes at massive scale and care deeply about ranking quality, freshness, and retrieval speed, this is the role.
Company
Firecrawl provides a single API to turn the web into structured, LLM-ready data. It offers search, scrape, crawl, map, and interact endpoints, returning full page content, metadata, and internal link graphs. It handles JavaScript-rendered pages, proxies, rate limiting, and caching; supports interactive actions on pages to fetch data before extraction; and outputs data as Markdown or JSON. The platform targets developers, AI teams, and SEO analysts building data-driven applications and dashboards, with usage credits and Stripe-based billing.
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