Goodfire · 13 hours ago
Head of Engineering, Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$300K/yr - $450K/yr
10+ years expGoodfire is an AI interpretability research company focused on understanding and designing AI systems that people can trust. The Head of Engineering will be responsible for growing the core platform, ensuring its success, and recruiting top machine learning engineers from leading AI labs.
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Responsibilities
Be a Key Technical Contributor
Direct technical execution at the highest level is expected for all leaders
Convert state-of-the-art research into scalable, product-grade tools with urgency
Oversee infrastructure for model interpretability, training, and inference at frontier scale
Build an Exemplary Engineering Team
Recruit, hire, and retain top machine learning engineers from leading AI research labs
Develop and execute a hiring strategy that positions Goodfire as a destination for the best engineers in the field
Foster a high-performance culture equipped to tackle some of the hardest problems in AI
Own Outcomes End-to-End
Drive adoption of Goodfire's core platform
Collaborate directly with customers and go-to-market teams
Shape and reinforce Goodfire's culture and values as the company scales
Qualification
Required
10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles
Demonstrated success building and scaling engineering teams at high-growth startups or frontier AI labs
Exceptional track record recruiting machine learning engineers from top AI organizations
Deep technical expertise in ML infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale model training
Hands-on proficiency with PyTorch or JAX, modern ML tooling and inference engines
Strong network within the AI/ML research and engineering community
Genuine passion for AI safety, interpretability, and building systems that earn human trust
Preferred
Prior experience at a frontier AI lab or leading AI research organization
Experience shipping ML products to enterprise or research customers
Background in or familiarity with interpretability, alignment, or AI safety research
Public presence in the AI community (publications, open-source contributions, speaking engagements)
Benefits
Equity
Competitive benefits
Company
Goodfire
AI interpretability research company
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$57MKey Investors
Menlo VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners
2025-04-17Series A· $50M
2024-08-15Seed· $7M
Leadership Team
Eric Ho
Co-Founder & CEO
Dan Balsam
Co-Founder and CTO
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