Firecrawl
Product Engineer - Parse
$235K–$260K
San Francisco HQ +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
Toronto Hub - Experience
- 3+ years building and shipping developer-facing product
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must already be authorized to work in the US or Canada. In the US, the company supports H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia), but cannot sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the US. In Canada, work permit sponsorship may be considered case by case through the Toronto Hub.
About the job
Build and ship developer-facing document-parsing APIs that convert files into reliable, layout-aware markdown or structured data for AI applications.
What you'll do
- Develop document-parsing features from idea to production and own parsed-output quality across varied file types.
- Turn challenges such as layout detection, table structure, reading order, and OCR routing into usable APIs.
- Work with engineering on roadmap and tradeoffs, using developer feedback to guide product improvements.
What they ask for
- Experience building and shipping developer-facing products that people use.
- Care about developer experience, including latency, output schemas, and documentation.
- Comfort owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped features.
- Move quickly by shipping, measuring, and iterating.
Pay
$235,000–$260,000 USD/year (SF) (base salary); $217,000–$233,000 CAD/year (Toronto) (base salary)
Tools
PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, OCR
AI focus
Build parsing features that convert documents into LLM-ready markdown or structured JSON for AI applications.
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