# Product Engineer — Search
**Company:** [Firecrawl](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/firecrawl)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $180K-$290K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Search, Retrieval, Ranking, API Development, Rl, Ml Engineering, Model Training, Elasticsearch, Vespa, Vector Databases, Production Systems, Latency Optimization, Developer Experience, Instrumentation
**Posted:** 2026-04-02
> Owns developer-facing search API at Firecrawl, shipping research improvements (retrieval, ranking) into production-ready features with obsessive focus on DX, latency, and usability. Requires 3+ years in applied RL/ML engineering or model training with production systems.
## Job Description
## What You'll Do

- Ship search improvements that developers notice. Take retrieval and ranking improvements from research and turn them into product changes.
- Own the search API end-to-end: response format, latency, error handling, pagination, filtering.
- Dogfood relentlessly: build with the API before shipping, read GitHub issues, Discord threads, support tickets.
- Translate research into product decisions: prioritize, expose to users, work with Search/IR and RL Research Engineers.
- Run fast product experiments: form hypotheses, instrument, ship, measure, decide quickly.
- Raise the bar on developer experience: consistent response formats, helpful error messages, accurate documentation.

## What We're Looking For

- Obsessive about developer experience (DX): latency, response structure, API ergonomics.
- Speaks product and engineering fluently: read ranking algorithms, write API specs, implement.
- Hands-on builder who ships: code from design to deployment, comfortable with ambiguity.
- Feel for search as a product: recall vs precision, query understanding, result ranking, semantic vs keyword search.
- Production instincts: operate under load, instrumentation, latency/quality tradeoffs.

**Backgrounds that tend to do well:** Engineers owning search/discovery at dev-tools companies, full-stack with backend bias shipping APIs, search infrastructure teams, built on Elasticsearch/Vespa/vector databases.

**Compensation:** $180,000–$290,000/year (U.S.-based in San Francisco, CA; adjusted for other locations). Up to 0.15% equity.

**Benefits:** Generous PTO, parental leave, wellness stipend, learning stipend, team offsites, sabbatical (US: full medical/dental/vision, life/disability insurance).
**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/product-engineer-search-at-firecrawl-b2006157-8857-4bec-8d8d-4cdb987c9722
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