engineering
Posted Apr 13Design Engineer
at Firecrawl
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
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Responsibilities
- DESIGN ENGINEER You'll own the look, feel, and
Requirements
- experience of Firecrawl across our entire platform — from the core product UI to docs, playgrounds, and marketing pages.
- In just a year, we've hit 8 figures in ARR and 120k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data.
- If you spend a week in Figma before touching code, you'll be frustrated here.
- benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter
- A portfolio link, a GitHub repo, or a deployed project goes a long way.
- experience layer of one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure startups — and you ship code, not just mockups — this is your shot. 👉 Apply now.
Benefits
- Salary Range: $160,000 to $240,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA.
- Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living.) 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 Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required ABOUT FIRECRAWL Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web.
- BENEFITS & PERKS AVAILABLE TO ALL EMPLOYEES Salary that makes sense — $150,000–$200,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure Own a piece — Up to 0.1% 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 moms and dads Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human Learning & Development — Expense up to
- 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 stuff and a quick note on why this excites you.
Additional details
- You take ideas from rough sketches to production-ready pages, and you ship them fast.
- If you care about motion, precision, and performance, you'll thrive here.
- Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call.
- We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure superintelligence will use to gather data on the web.
- You go from concept to finished product independently.
- You don't wait for a spec to be perfect — you ship, iterate, and make things better every day.
- You've worked in fast environments before and you like it that way.
- You understand that great design in a dev tools context means clarity, speed, and zero friction — not flashy gimmicks.
- But we want to see things people actually use — not just Dribbble shots that never saw production.
- Backgrounds that often do well: Design engineers at developer tools companies, frontend engineers with strong design instincts, designers who code and ship their own work, or indie builders who've launched products end-to-end.