Head of Agent Ops
$170k - $215k USD
Head of Agent Ops
You'll 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 person's clock speed and scaling our ability to deploy agents across the business.
Salary Range: $170,000–$215,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country’s cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers/compensation.)
Equity 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 call. In just a year, we’ve hit 8 figures in ARR and 80k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data.
We’re 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 We're 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. You've shipped real systems that automate real work.
Someone with battle-tested opinions on AI-assisted development. You've pushed vibe coding techniques far enough to know where they break. You have strong, experience-driven opinions about what works and what doesn't — grounded in first principles, not hype. You know when to let the model drive and when to take the wheel.
An automation obsessive. You've 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 shouldn't exist and won't 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 don't. You allocate your energy accordingly.
$10k+/month token budget (will increase with demonstrated impact).
What We're NOT Looking For
AI skeptics. If you think superintelligence is hundreds of years away, this isn't your role.
Comfort optimizers. We're looking for people who seek discomfort and aim to make a difference — not optimize for comfy vibes.
Status chasers. If you're here because AI is in the news, you're not a fit. If you believe we're 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 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 — $170,000–215,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
Own a piece — Up to 0.20% 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 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 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
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 you’ve built).
Intro Chat (~20–25 min) – Quick alignment call focused on what you’ve shipped, how you think about agents vs workflows, and what you’d automate first at Firecrawl.
Async Systems Design (60–90 min) – A short, structured design exercise: propose a v1 agent/workflow to eliminate a real internal bottleneck. We’re 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 (1–2 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 you’ve ever wanted to build the “agent operating system” inside one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure startups, this is your shot.
👉 Apply now and let’s set something on fire.