Sales Engineer

Firecrawl

• $180K — $240K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role or equivalent experience
  • Experience in technical pre-sales or solutions engineering, preferably with a developer or API product
  • Able to read code, use APIs, and personally build proofs of concept
  • Strong ability to communicate technical details and business value to diverse audiences
  • Motivated by customer conversations and accountable for deal outcomes

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical side of the sales cycle including demos and proof of concepts
  • Demonstrate how Firecrawl addresses customer problems hands-on
  • Handle deep technical inquiries to facilitate deal closure and engage engineering when necessary
  • Create effective proposals and POCs to convert interest into signed deals
  • Serve as the technical advisor for prospects and relay their feedback to product and engineering teams
  • Collaborate closely with the revenue team to advance deals and achieve targets

Benefits

  • Competitive salary of $180,000-$240,000 OTE
  • Equity in the company
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
  • Employer-paid life & disability insurance
  • Wellness stipend of $100/month for personal health activities
  • Generous PTO with a mandatory 15 days and unlimited beyond that
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents
  • Learning & Development expense of $1,000/year for professional growth
  • Unique team offsites and a 3-month paid sabbatical after 4 years
  • Pet insurance and perks like snacks and drinks in the SF HQ
Full Job Description
Sales Engineer

You'll be the technical partner in every deal that matters. When a developer or company is evaluating Firecrawl for serious scale, you're the one who shows them what it can do, architects the solution to their problem, runs the proof of concept, and answers the hard technical questions that decide the deal. You sit at the intersection of engineering and revenue: fluent enough to earn a developer's trust, commercial enough to move a deal forward. You'll report to our VP of Revenue and Success and own the technical side of the sales motion from day one.

Salary Range: $180,000 to $240,000/year OTE

Equity Range: Competitive equity - details shared during the process.

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid, on-site required)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role or equivalent

Visa: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.

What You'll Do
  • Own the technical side of the sales cycle: discovery, solution architecture, demos, and proof of concepts
  • Get hands-on with the product in front of customers, show them exactly how Firecrawl solves their problem
  • Answer the deep technical questions that make or break a deal, and know when to pull in engineering
  • Build POCs and technical proposals that turn "interesting" into "signed"
  • Be the trusted technical voice for prospects, and bring their feedback back to product and engineering
  • Partner closely with the revenue team to move deals forward and hit team targets


What We're Looking For
  • You've done technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, or a customer-facing technical role, ideally at a developer or API product
  • You're technical enough to earn a developer's respect: you can read code, use an API, and build a real POC yourself
  • You can translate between deep technical detail and business value without losing either audience
  • You're energized by customer conversations and comfortable owning your part of a deal's outcome
  • You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship a POC and iterate than perfect a deck


What We're NOT Looking For
  • A pure account executive who can't get technical
  • An engineer who doesn't want to be in front of customers
  • Someone who needs a fully-built playbook before they can run a deal


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

For our U.S. Based Full-Time Employees
  • Salary that makes sense - $180,000-$240,000 OTE, depending on experience
  • Own a piece - Gain competitive equity in what you're helping build
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pet insurance - Because fur babies are family too
  • 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 work and a quick note on why this excites you. Tell us about deals you've helped win and the technical problems you solved to get there. We care about what you've done, not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (~25 min) - A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (~60 min) - We'll dig into a real scenario from our world: run a technical discovery and show us how you'd demo Firecrawl or scope a POC for a prospect with a hard problem. We care how you reason and how you handle the technical questions, not whether you memorized a script.

Founder Chat (~25 min) - Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) - Work a real technical deal scenario with the team, build a POC, scope a solution, or run a technical discovery. Paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides. Remote-friendly, and we'll flex around your current commitments.

Decision - We move fast after the trial.

If you want to be the technical partner behind every deal at one of the fastest-growing companies in AI infrastructure, you should join us.

👉 Apply now.

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