Product Engineer - Parse

You'll build the endpoint developers reach for when they need to turn documents (PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, and more) into clean, layout-aware data an AI can actually use.

Parse takes a local or non-public file and returns LLM-ready markdown or structured JSON in a single call, with tables, headings, footnotes, and reading order preserved.

This is hands-on product engineering at the core of what Firecrawl does: shipping the document-parsing features that thousands of developers hit every day, owning them from idea to production, and obsessing over the details that make an API a joy to build on.

You'll ship real product from day one, not tickets in a backlog.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship developer-facing document-parsing features from idea to production
• Own the reliability and quality of parsed output across PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, and more, including the messy scanned and mixed-format files that break traditional parsers
• Turn hard, ambiguous problems (layout detection, table structure, reading order, OCR routing) into clean APIs developers love to use
• Work directly with the engineering team on the roadmap and the tradeoffs behind it
• Dogfood the product, read the GitHub issues, and let real developer pain drive what you build

Requirements

• You've built and shipped developer-facing product that people actually used
• You care about developer experience like a designer cares about pixels: latency, output schema, docs, the whole feel of it
• You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped features
• You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper

Benefits & Perks

• Salary that makes sense , $235,000–$260,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
• Own a piece , Gain competitive 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 all parents
• Wellness stipend , $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
• Learning & Development , Expense up to $1,000/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