Goodfire

Goodfire

Head of Engineering, Platform

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specified$300k-$450kDetected 149 days ago
Distributed SystemsMachine LearningPyTorchResearchLeadership

About the role

  • We're looking for a highly technical Head of Engineering to grow our core platform.
  • At Goodfire, we believe that leaders need to be in the trenches with their team and that engineering leaders also need to be exceptional engineers.
  • You'll have extremely high ownership over a critical core of the business.

Responsibilities

  • Build an Exemplary Engineering Team
  • Develop and execute a hiring strategy that positions Goodfire as a destination for the best engineers in the field.
  • Own Outcomes End-to-End
  • Drive adoption of Goodfire's core platform.
  • Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory-we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
  • 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.
  • Required Experience

Nice to have

  • Prior experience at a frontier AI lab or leading AI research organization.
  • Background in or familiarity with interpretability, alignment, or AI safety research.
  • Public presence in the AI community (publications, open-source contributions, speaking engagements).
  • Put mission and team first
  • We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
  • Improve constantly
  • We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization.
  • Take ownership and initiative

Skills

  • Convert state-of-the-art research into scalable, product-grade tools with urgency.

Compensation

  • $300,000 - $450,000 USD (commensurate with experience)
  • Expected salary range: $300,000 - $450,000 USD (commensurate with experience)

Benefits

  • This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
  • Recruit, hire, and retain top machine learning engineers from leading AI research labs.

Company info

  • You'll also be responsible for recruiting outstanding machine learning engineers from top AI labs to work on our mission.
  • Shape and reinforce Goodfire's culture and values as the company scales.
  • Collaborate directly with customers and go-to-market teams.

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