Head of Agent Ops

Youll 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 persons clock speed and scaling our ability to deploy agents across the business.

Salary Range: $170000$215000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your countrys cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: 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

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API just a year weve hit 8 figures in ARR and 80k GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data.

Were a small fast-moving technical team building essential infrastructure super-intelligence will use to gather data on the web. We ship fast and dep.

What Were Looking For

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. Youve shipped real systems that automate real work.

Someone with battle-tested opinions on AI-assisted development. Youve pushed vibe coding techniques far enough to know where they break. You have strong experience-driven opinions about what works and what doesnt grounded in first principles not hype. You know when to let the model drive and when to take the wheel.

An automation obsessive. Youve 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 shouldnt exist and wont 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 dont. You allocate your energy accordingly.

$10k/month token budget (will increase with demonstrated impact).

What Were NOT Looking For

AI skeptics. If you think superintelligence is hundreds of years away this isnt your role.

Comfort optimizers. Were looking for people who seek discomfort and aim to make a difference not optimize for comfy vibes.

Status chasers. If youre here because AI is in the news youre not a fit. If you believe were at a once-in-a-species inflection point and you want to shape the wave not just ride it this is the place for you.

A Note On Pace

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what were building wont stay open forever. If that excites you keep reading. If it doesnt no hard feelings but this role probably isnt for you.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

• Salary that makes sense $/year (SF U.S.-based) based on impact not tenure

• Own a piece Up to 0.20% equity in what youre 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 lifes 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 youve built).

• Intro Chat (2025 min) Quick alignment call focused on what youve shipped how you think about agents vs workflows and what youd automate first at Firecrawl.

• Async Systems Design (6090 min) A short structured design exercise: propose a v1 agent/workflow to eliminate a real internal bottleneck. Were 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 (12 weeks) Test drive the real thing: ship an internal automation or agent workflow that a team actually uses with measurable impact and basic eval/reliability practices.

• Decision We move fast after the trial.

If youve ever wanted to build the agent operating system inside one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure startups this is your shot.

Apply now and lets set something on fire.

Required Experience:

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