# Product Engineer - Parse

**Company:** [Firecrawl](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/firecrawl)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $235k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Document Parsing, Pdf, Ocr, API Design, JSON, Markdown, Table Extraction, Layout Detection, Reading Order, Developer Experience
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Build and own developer-facing document-parsing features that transform complex files into reliable, LLM-ready markdown and structured JSON. The role requires at least three years of shipping products or APIs used by developers, strong product judgment, and comfort solving ambiguous parsing problems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and ship developer-facing document-parsing features from idea through production.
- Own the reliability and quality of parsed output across PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, scanned files, and mixed-format documents.
- Solve layout detection, table structure, reading order, and OCR-routing challenges through clean, developer-friendly APIs.
- Collaborate with the engineering team on roadmap priorities and product tradeoffs.
- Use product dogfooding, GitHub issues, and developer feedback to guide development.

## Requirements
- 3+ years building and shipping developer-facing products.
- Experience delivering products, features, or APIs used by real customers or developers.
- Strong focus on developer experience, including latency, output schemas, documentation, and usability.
- Ability to own ambiguous problems and turn them into shipped features.
- Comfortable moving quickly, measuring results, and iterating.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not currently available.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $235,000–$260,000 per year for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA.
- Competitive equity.
- 15 days of mandatory PTO, with additional time available upon request.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
- $100/month wellness stipend.
- Up to $1,000/year for learning and development.
- Paid team offsites.
- Three-month paid sabbatical after four years.
- U.S.-based employees: medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; supplemental insurance options; telehealth; 401(k); FSAs; commuter benefits; and pet insurance.
- San Francisco employees: office snacks, drinks, team lunches, and a loaner electric bike.
- Paid work trial, conducted remotely and paid at a contractor rate.

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