Forward Deployed Engineer - Revenue

About the company

Firecrawl is an open-source web crawler and commercially supported API used by developers and AI agents, offering search and crawler services, publisher monetization tools, and planned natural-language prompt support.

About this role

FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER - REVENUE You'll be the engineer customers trust to make Firecrawl work in the real world. When a high-value account hits a hard extraction problem, a messy integration, or a "can it even do this?" question, you're the one who shows up, digs into their stack, and ships the thing that unblocks them. This is a customer-facing engineering role measured in adoption and expansion, not tickets closed. You build, you deploy, you own the outcome. Salary Range: $180,000 to $240,000/year OTE Equity Range: Competitive equity — details shared during the process. Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid, on-site required) Job Type: Full-Time Experience: 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role or equivalent Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line. ABOUT FIRECRAWL Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 150k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started. We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount. This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own whole pieces of People & Operations end to end: recruiting coordination, onboarding, HR operations, events, vendor and expense management - Be the trusted second who can step in on almost anything when it needs to happen - Build and run the systems that keep a fast-growing team organized, and improve them as you go - Support the executive team: prep, coordination, follow-through, and quietly making sure nothing falls through the cracks - Take ambiguous, unowned problems and just handle them, no spec required - Grow into more scope over time as you earn trust   WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - You're a high-ownership generalist who's run operations or been the "person who makes things happen" at a company that was growing fast - You have exceptional judgment and follow-through, when you say something's handled, it's handled - You're comfortable with ambiguity and wide scope, and you'd rather own a problem than wait for direction - You're organized enough to hold a hundred threads and calm enough that no one can tell - You're discreet and trustworthy, you'll be close to sensitive people, comp, and company matters - You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, adjust, and iterate than wait for perfect Backgrounds that often do well: Solutions engineers or SEs at API/devtools companies. Customer-facing engineers at startups who owned the full lifecycle from demo to deployment. Technical account managers who actually built things. Ex-founders who sold and delivered their own product. WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR - Someone who needs a clearly defined lane and a full spec before they can act - A pure coordinator who executes tasks but won't own outcomes - Someone who wants a predictable, narrow role, this job is the opposite   A NOTE ON PACE We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you. BENEFITS & PERKS AVAILABLE TO ALL EMPLOYEES - Salary that makes sense — $180,000 to $240,000/year OTE, based on impact, not tenure - Own a piece — Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build - Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge - Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents - Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human - Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally - Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls - Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new AVAILABLE TO US-BASED FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES - Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works - Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs - Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind - Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch - 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you - Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit - Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too   AVAILABLE TO SF-BASED EMPLOYEES - SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy - E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us INTERVIEW PROCESS Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Tell us about something you owned end to end and how you made it run. We care about what you've done, not where you went to school. Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what dre