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Goodfire · 1 month ago

Machine Learning Engineer, Life Sciences

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$200K/yr - $400K/yr
date5+ years exp

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research company focused on developing trustworthy AI systems. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer (Life Sciences) to contribute to the creation of tools for training and deploying interpretable AI systems, particularly in the context of scientific and biological models.

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Responsibilities

Productionize interpretability research into maintainable tools, APIs, and workflows that work on real models and real scientific data
Optimize pipelines and infrastructure for frontier model interpretability, training, and inference
Prototype techniques to visualize and manipulate internal model structures
Integrate new machine learning workflows and pipelines into our product and deploy to customers
Ensure system reliability, reproducibility, and performance

Qualification

Machine LearningPythonPyTorchDistributed SystemsML Systems DeploymentBiological MLResearch EngineeringSystems ProgrammingOpen-source ContributionsTeam CollaborationProblem SolvingInitiative

Required

5+ years of experience in ML infra, research engineering, or systems programming
Comfort working across research and engineering boundaries
Expertise in Python, PyTorch or Jax, and distributed systems
Experience deploying and maintaining ML systems at scale
You care about understanding how models work internally and using that to make them more reliable and useful in the real world

Preferred

Experience with biological / life sciences ML (computational biology, bioinformatics, digital pathology, protein/genomics, multimodal biomedical data)
Open-source ML infrastructure contributions
Startup or frontier-lab experience in fast-moving teams

Benefits

Equity
Competitive benefits

Company

Goodfire

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AI interpretability research company
dateFounded in 2024
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://goodfire.ai/

H1B Sponsorship

Goodfire has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$57M
Key Investors
Menlo VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners
2025-04-17Series A· $50M
2024-08-15Seed· $7M

Leadership Team

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Eric Ho
Co-Founder & CEO
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Dan Balsam
Co-Founder and CTO
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