Research Engineer — Search/IR at Firecrawl

Research Engineer (Focused on Search/IR) You'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. Salary Range: $180,000–$290,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers/compensation .) Equity Range: Up to 0.15% Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10) Job Type: Full-Time Experience: 3+ years building search/IR systems at scale Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required fo