Head of Agent Ops at Firecrawl

You'll own the internal AI infrastructure that makes our team unreasonably fast. That means building, evaluating vendors, and continuously evolving the AI systems our team runs on — with the goal of maximizing every person's clock speed and scaling our ability to deploy agents across the business. Salary Range: $170,000–$215,000/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. You can explore how we calculate this here: https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers/compensation.) Equity Range: Up to 0.20% Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); Truly exceptional remote considered. Job Type: Full-Time (SF) Experience: 5+ years or equivalent shipped systems Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required for SF We’re a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure super-intelligence will use to gather data on the web. We ship fast and dep. A technical practitioner, not a theorist. You understand how models actually work — not just API calls, but attention, context windows, inference tradeoffs, tool use patterns. You read papers. But your first instinct is always to build, not to theorize. You've shipped real systems that automate real work. Someone with battle-tested opinions on AI-assisted development. You've pushed vibe coding techniques far enough to know where they break. You have strong, experience-driven opinions about what works and what doesn't — grounded in first principles, not hype. You know when to let the model drive and when to take the wheel. An automation obsessive. You've already automated your own life to a degree that others find somewhat unhinged. You see manual processes the way most people see bugs — something that shouldn't exist and won't for long. Someone who understands the bitter lesson. You know where the highest-leverage opportunities are because you understand which problems get solved by scale and which don't. You allocate your energy accordingly. $10k+/month token budget (will increase with demonstrated impact). Benefits & Perks ## Available to all employees – Salary that makes sense — $170,000–215,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure – Own a piece — Up to 0.20% 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 $1000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally – Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls – Sabbatical— 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new ## Available to US-based full-time employees – Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works – Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs – Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind – Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch – 401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you – Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter 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 + a quick note on why this excites you (plus links to things you’ve built). – Intro Chat (~20–25 min) – Quick alignment call focused on what you’ve shipped, how you think about agents vs workflows, and what you’d automate first at Firecrawl. – Async Systems Design (60–90 min) – A short, structured design exercise: propose a v1 agent/workflow to eliminate a real internal bottleneck. We’re looking for taste, guardrails, eval/monitoring, and a rollout plan — not a big build. – Founder Chat (~30 min) – Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too. – Paid Work Trial (1–2 weeks) – Test drive the real thing: ship an internal project that matters.