# Research Engineer - Evals 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: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/firecrawl/25092c0e-9a32-4191-af79-050738213704
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firecrawl-research-engineer-evals/

## About the role

Design the metrics that define what "good output" actually means across millions of sites, formats, and edge cases Build the pipelines and harnesses that measure quality rigorously and at scale

## What they're looking for

- You have the engineering depth to build real evaluation systems, not just run existing ones
- You care deeply about what "good" means and how to measure it rigorously
- You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems where the metric itself has to be invented
- You move fast and close the loop. You'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper
- Someone who only wants to run benchmarks someone else designed
- A pure researcher who won't build the systems, or a pure engineer who won't think about methodology

Tags: Engineering Team