Drimva

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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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)