
Research Engineer, RL
Firecrawl
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $270,000 per year
About the role
- Build training infrastructure and reward pipelines from scratch
- Fine-tune models to achieve state-of-the-art results
- Bridge LLM agents and classical RL
- Run fast experiments and iterate
- Communicate clearly to non-RL people
- Collaborate across the research team
Requirements
- 3+ years in applied RL, ML engineering, or model training — with production systems
- Can fine-tune models to achieve SOTA results
- Bridges LLM agents and classical RL approaches
- Runs fast experiments and communicates clearly
- Production-minded
Benefits
- Salary that makes sense — $180,000–$270,000/year, based on impact, not tenure
- Own a piece — Up to 0.15% 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 $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
- 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
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
reinforcement learningmachine learning engineeringmodel trainingfine-tuning modelsstate-of-the-art resultsLLM agentsclassical RLexperimentationproduction systems
Soft Skills
clear communicationcollaboration