Goodfire
Head of Engineering, Platform
$300K–$450K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Jan 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
About the job
Leads hands-on engineering for Goodfire’s interpretability platform, overseeing technical execution, infrastructure, team growth, and customer adoption.
What you'll do
- Convert research into scalable tools and oversee infrastructure for interpretability, training, and inference.
- Recruit, hire, and retain machine learning engineers and build a high-performing engineering team.
- Drive platform adoption and work directly with customers and go-to-market teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Proven success scaling engineering teams at high-growth startups or frontier AI labs, plus a strong track record recruiting machine learning engineers from top AI organizations.
- Deep 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 AI/ML community network and genuine passion for AI safety, interpretability, and building trustworthy systems.
Nice to have
- Experience at a frontier AI lab or leading AI research organization; experience shipping ML products to enterprise or research customers.
- Familiarity with interpretability, alignment, or AI safety research; public presence through publications, open-source contributions, or speaking engagements.
Pay
$300,000 - $450,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Leads development of AI interpretability infrastructure and tools, including model training and inference at frontier scale.
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