Y Combinator-assisted start-up firecrawl is again looking for AI agent employees. As we reported in February, his first attempt did not make a attitude.
But now it has set up three new ads for the YC job exchange for “only agent” and has put a budget of 1 million US dollars aside to achieve this.
There were about 50 applicants within a week after the new jobs live, says founder Caleb Peffer Techcrunch.
Firecrawl offers a web crawling tool that scratches data from websites for LLMS. As Peffer admits, this is a dodgy component of the AI ​​ecosystem, in which bad web crawlers can sometimes pack websites such as DDOS attacks. But Firewcrawl has gained popularity by trying to bring in some guardrails, he says.
For example, many of their customers are companies that scrape their own data for internal LLM use. Some websites want your data to be contained in Chatbot answers, just as you want Google links, he says. In addition, the Tool Robot.txt settings and can be set so that only once a public website is deterred and the data is released with others.
As a result, a workplace opening for a content-creationer “never sleeps and always ships”, which autonomously creates “high-quality” SEO-AN-Klysing blog contributions and tutorial to use your product, it says in the display of the startup. Firecrawl wants these AI engagement metrics to observe and use them to autonomously improve the audience for its content.
In other words, the agent should decide what to create, create, post, measure the audience and to increase the control of this feedback autonomously. If you are a Grenz -Agi -Ki that was made to blog, this can be the order for you. The advertised payment is $ 5,000 per month.
The company is also looking for a customer service worker who is commissioned to create the KI workflow, who reacts to customer problems within two minutes and can manage the tickets even when they should be escalated into a person. Earlier experience with customer support is requested. The payment is also $ 5,000/month.
The third opening is for a junior developer agent who is commissioned to prioritize incoming Github problems, the writing of documentation and writing code in TypeScript and GO. Once again, the payment is also $ 5,000 per month.
But here is the catch: Firecrawl also hopes to stop human creators or creators behind these bots – and the budget of 1 million US dollar is to set both agents and humans, although it is not clear how many years the budget should cover. The startup could hire people full -time or as a contractor (which may make sense if they create many agents for many companies). Firecrawl is also entertaining bids from other startups that specialize in creating the types of agents who are looking for, for example, in customer service, says Peffer.
The truth is that the AI ​​employee of Firecrawls does not yet dream. Maybe it will never do it.
“AI can’t replace people today,” says Peffer. “The future of what we see is a world in which the next 10 -fold engineers run armies of agents, AI systems that build, maintain and monitor them. We want to work with people who want to be these agent operators.”
Fire craft is not the only one. The YC job bath is full of jobs for developers of agents. Will your creations ever replace you because the Silicon Valley always wants? That is the real million dollar question.