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# Agent Experience Engineer

- **Company:** SIDEGUIDE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $235,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Open Source Technology
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/agent-experience-engineer-firecrawl-9918805

## About the Role

Firecrawl is looking for a high-agency, product-minded engineer with strong experimental and data instincts to own how agents discover, understand, and use Firecrawl. You'll ship fast, run rigorous A/B tests, and turn what you learn into a better product - for an audience that isn't human.

This is not a pure research or data science role. We want an engineer who brings scientific rigor to product development: forming hypotheses, running experiments, analyzing results, and shipping better agent experiences. Prior agent experience is valuable, but raw engineering ability, shipping velocity, and learning speed matter most., 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., * A track record of shipping high-quality products fast - not prototypes, not decks

 * Comfort designing A/B tests, reading behavioral data, and acting on what it tells you
 * Familiarity with agent-facing surfaces: MCPs, CLIs, skills, APIs, documentation
 * You actively follow emerging AI tools, models, and harnesses - Hermes, OpenClaw, whatever's next
 * Genuine curiosity about how agents select tools, interpret capabilities, and interact with products
 * High agency - you can operate independently in a space that doesn't have a playbook yet
 * Often an ex-founder, early startup engineer, prolific open-source contributor, or someone with impressive public work, * Someone looking for a pure research or data science role - this is a shipping job first
 * Someone who needs a mapped-out roadmap before they can move
 * Someone who treats experimentation as a report to write rather than a lever to pull
 * Someone excited by agents in theory who hasn't actually built for them

## Description

* Design and ship A/B tests across agent-facing surfaces - MCPs, CLIs, skills, APIs, documentation - to see how agents actually use Firecrawl
 * Turn experiment results into shipped product improvements, fast
 * Track emerging agent tools, models, and harnesses (Hermes, OpenClaw, and whatever's next) closely enough to know what they mean for us
 * Form hypotheses about how agents discover, interpret, and select tools and capabilities, then test them in production
 * Operate independently in a space that doesn't have a playbook yet - own the problem end to end
 * Bring scientific rigor to product development without turning it into a research project


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