Design Engineer

Firecrawl; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Learning & Development

Team offsites

Sabbatical

Job summary

Firecrawl is seeking a Design Engineer to own the design of firecrawl.dev end to end, ensure consistent visual language, and drive scalable design work across the site. You will collaborate with founders and the Creative Lead, shipping pages rapidly while keeping each page unique and on-brand.

You will combine design sense with production-minded coding to move fast and make strong design calls that scale. The role emphasizes end-to-end site ownership in a high-velocity AI-first startup

Qualifications

• Taste you can see on a live site and a portfolio of shipped work.
• - You design and ship websites and landing pages.
• - You maintain site consistency as it grows and evolves.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of firecrawl.dev and ensure a unified look across pages.
• Pull the site together by fixing drift in type, spacing, color and components.
• Ship launch pages quickly from concept to live for big launches.
• Use coding agents to apply design changes across dozens of pages at scale.
• Keep pages unique and non-templated while maintaining coherence.
• Make site-wide decisions and move forward with targeted details.

Skills

Taste on live site

Ships code

Systems thinking

AI-native

Fast judgment

Make the call

Background mapping

Education

No degree required

Job description

DESIGN ENGINEER

Firecrawl ships fast, and our website is starting to show it. Every launch adds pages, and the pages are drifting apart. We're looking for a design engineer who owns the design of firecrawl.dev end to end and keeps the whole site consistent and beautiful as we ship more of it.

You'll work with agents to ship design at scale: a new landing page for a big launch one week, a cleanup pass across the rest of the site the next, and every page still unique and eye-catching. You'll work directly with Eric, our co-founder and CGO, and Rhys, our Creative Lead, and pitch in on Alloy, the AI workspace where our brand and creative tools live. The main job is moving fast and making great design calls. You don't spend a week on one small detail, unless that detail applies across the whole site.

Salary Range: $190,000 - $220,000 USD/year

Equity Range: Competitive equity. Details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). Hybrid, onsite 3+ days a week.

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 4+ years designing and shipping production websites

Education: No degree required. We care about what you've shipped, not where you went to school.

Work Authorization: Open to candidates already authorized to work in the US. We also support H-1B transfers, F-1 OPT and STEM OPT, TN (Canada and Mexico), and E-3 (Australia). We're not able to sponsor new H-1B visas for candidates outside the US.

ABOUT FIRECRAWL

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data. It's the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.

In September 2026, we raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, and we're spending it building the largest repository of knowledge in the world. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 192k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 40 repositories of all time, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.

We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves. No hiding behind process or headcount.

This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web. That library is called Alexandria, and it starts now.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the design of firecrawl.dev. Every page should look like it came from one team with one point of view.

• Pull the site back together. Find where pages have drifted in type, spacing, color, components and motion, and fix it at the system level so the fix lands everywhere at once.

• Ship launch pages fast. When a big launch is coming, you take the landing page from first concept to live, and it's the page people screenshot.

• Ship at scale with agents. Use coding agents to build, refactor and roll out design changes across dozens of pages, instead of hand-pushing pixels on each one.

• Keep it unique. Consistent doesn't mean templated. Every launch page should still feel like its own thing.

• Make the call and move. Spend your time on details that apply across the whole site. Ship everything else.

• Pitch in on Alloy. Help shape the components and rules in Alloy so the site and the rest of our brand work stay in sync.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Taste you can see on a live site. You've designed and shipped websites or landing pages we'd love, and you can show us exactly what you owned.

• A designer who ships code. You take your own designs to production. Design is the job; code is how you ship it.

• A systems thinker. You've kept a site or design system consistent as it grew. You know when to fix one page and when to fix the component.

• AI-native. Coding agents are part of how you work every day, and you've used them to ship design changes at a scale you couldn't by hand.

• Fast, with judgment. You don't need a long brief or a long timeline. You know which details matter and which don't.

• You make the call. There's no committee or approval chain. You'll work directly with Eric and Rhys, and you're expected to push back and own the outcome.

• A background that maps. A design engineer who owns the marketing site at an AI or devtools startup. A designer who built and shipped their company's website themselves. A frontend engineer with a real design eye and the portfolio to prove it. Time at a company known for its design taste is a strong signal, but any background works if the work is there.

• Bonus points:

  • Motion and interaction design on the web.

  • You've built or maintained a design system used across a marketing site.

  • You've shipped a big launch page against a hard deadline.

  • You've used Firecrawl, built with MCP servers, or shipped an agent that calls external tools.

WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR

• Designers who hand off mockups and wait for engineers to build them.

• Engineers who design on the side. Design is the job.

• Pixel-perfectionists who spend a week on one button that appears once.

• Template portfolios. If every site you've shipped looks like the same SaaS template, it's not a fit.

• Anyone who needs a long brief and a long timeline to do great work.

• Anyone anti-AI, or who hasn't actually used agents to ship real work.

A NOTE ON PACE

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings, but this role probably isn't for you.

BENEFITS & PERKS

Available to All Employees

• Salary that makes sense: [TBD] USD/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 USD/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

• Learning & Development: Expense up to $1,000 USD/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 partner and kids). No weird loopholes, just care that works

• Life & Disability insurance: Employer-paid basic life and AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability. Coverage for life's curveballs

• Virtual care and a health guide: Teladoc for the couch doctor visit, plus Rightway to answer coverage questions and fight billing errors for you

• Mental health: Talkspace, therapy and psychiatry on your schedule

• Fertility and family building: Carrot, covering you and your partner

• EAP: Free confidential counseling, legal and financial consults, and online will prep through Guardian

• 401(k) plan: Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you

• Pre-tax benefits: HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits to help your wallet out a bit

• Supplemental options: Extra life and AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, plus pet, legal, and identity protection through MetLife

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

1. Application Review. Send us a website or landing page you designed and shipped, plus a look at how you built it, including the agents and workflows behind it. Tell us what you personally owned.

2. Intro Chat (~15 min). A quick intro with Eric, our co-founder and CGO. Tell us about the work and how you built it, and bring your questions.

3. Design Deep Dive (~60 min). Meet Eric and Rhys. Walk us through one site end to end: the system, the calls you made, and what you'd change. Then a live prompt: we'll pull up two firecrawl.dev pages that have drifted apart, and you'll talk through how you'd bring them back together and what you'd fix across the site first. We care how you reason, not a rehearsed answer.

4. Paid Work Trial (~40 hours, paid at a contractor rate). Ship a real landing page for an upcoming launch, plus a cleanup pass across a section of the site. We evaluate on taste, speed, and whether we'd ship it.

5. Decision. We move fast after the trial.

If you want the site millions of developers see to feel like one beautiful thing, this is the seat.