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Firecrawl

Research Engineer — Reinforcement Learning

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about 2 months ago
Remote, Worldwide or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build training infrastructure and reward pipelines from scratch.
  • Design and operate systems for training and evaluating Firecrawl's models.
  • Fine-tune models to achieve state-of-the-art results.
  • Bridge LLM agents and classical RL techniques.
  • Run fast experiments and iterate based on results.
  • Communicate findings clearly to non-RL team members.
  • Collaborate closely with the engineering team on product roadmap.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in applied RL, ML engineering, or model training.
  • Proven ability to build training infrastructure and reward models independently.
  • Experience in fine-tuning models to achieve best-in-class performance.
  • Fluency in both classical RL and modern LLM techniques.
  • Production-minded with experience deploying models that serve real traffic.
  • Ability to run fast experiments and communicate results effectively.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on impact, ranging from $180,000 to $290,000/year.
  • Equity options up to 0.15%.
  • Generous PTO policy with 15 mandatory days and additional days upon request.
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
  • Wellness stipend of $100/month.
  • Learning & Development budget of up to $1,000/year.
  • Team offsites and a sabbatical of 3 paid months after 4 years.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees.

Categories

AI & MLData Science