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.