In-House Technical Recruiter

IN-HOUSE TECHNICAL RECRUITER

You'll own how Firecrawl hires. Thirty-plus open roles across engineering, research, go-to-market, and G&A, and one person running the funnel end to end: sourcing, screening, running the process, and getting great people to yes. Today that person is our Chief of Staff. Starting now, it's you.

You'll report to the Chief of Staff and work closely with the Deputy Chief of Staff, who runs the operating layer around hiring (tooling, onboarding kickoff, the weekly hiring digest). You'll work directly with hiring managers across the company, and you'll be based with us in San Francisco.

Salary Range: $210,000–$246,000 USD/year

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

Location: San Francisco, CA (SF HQ). On-site, five days a week.

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with real technical hires closed at a startup

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

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 183k+ GitHub stars, putting us in the top 50 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, working out of SF HQ and our new Toronto Hub. 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

- Run full-cycle recruiting on every open role outside the exec team: sourcing, screening, intro chats, scheduling, references, offer packets, and closing

- Source cold. Build pipelines for hard technical roles (infrastructure, ML, developer tools) without waiting for inbound or an agency to do it for you

- Own Ashby as a system: pipelines, stages, AI screening criteria per role, and reporting the team actually reads

- Run weekly syncs with hiring managers, calibrate the bar for each role, and write the candidate notes that let them decide fast

- Manage our agency and sourcing tool relationships, judge submission quality, and cut what isn't working

- Draft job descriptions on our template and keep every posting current

- Track time to hire, pass rates by stage, and source quality, and use the numbers to fix the funnel

- Hand every hire cleanly to onboarding

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- You've personally carried 15 to 25 open roles at a startup and closed technical hires: backend, infrastructure, ML, or developer tools. You can talk to an engineer about what they build

- You source cold and it works. You can show the pipelines you built from nothing

- You run a fast process without dropping candidates. Quick responses, clean scheduling, honest declines

- You have opinions about the bar and you'll say so to a hiring manager. You'd rather send three great people than twelve fine ones

- You're fluent in Ashby (or a comparable ATS) and use AI tools every day, from sourcing to screening to writing

- You close. You understand comp bands and equity well enough to walk a candidate through an offer, and you kn …