# Research Engineer - Benchmarks at Firecrawl

- Company: Firecrawl
- What the company does: Firecrawl is the web data API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. Turn any source into clean Markdown or structured data your agents can ship with. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.firecrawl.dev
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco HQ; Toronto Hub
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $250K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/90f88e13-7d5f-43e2-a3fc-9e16d836b71c?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firecrawl-research-engineer-benchmarks/

## About the role

Design and run head-to-head benchmarks of data providers against verified ground truth. For example: FullEnrich vs. DataLegion on finding the right person and their current employer and title. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You've shipped evals or benchmarks, and you can explain exactly why your results were trustworthy
- You've done this somewhere that matters: a frontier lab, a data company like Scale, Surge, micro1 or Mercor, a third-party benchmark org, or a public benchmark project. OSS contributors very welcome
- You're strong in Python and API integrations, and comfortable with messy vendor APIs, rate limits, and inconsistent schemas
- You know how to build test sets and scoring methods: sampling, labeling, inter-rater agreement, and when to trust an LLM judge and when not to
- You use AI heavily and keep upgrading your own workflow. You ship without waiting for instructions
- You write findings clearly for engineers, marketers, and the vendors on the other side of the leaderboard

Tags: Engineering Team

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firecrawl-research-engineer-benchmarks/