General Interest (Senior Leadership)

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Goodfire</strong></h2> <p>Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building.<br><br>Scaling has proven powerful, but today's approach is fundamentally limited: we can't meaningfully understand, debug, or shape what models learn. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now.</p> <p>We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software.</p> <p>Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others.</p></div><h2>Senior Leadership – Expression of Interest</h2> <p>Goodfire is tackling one of the most urgent and technically complex challenges in AI: making advanced systems interpretable and aligned. We’re looking to connect with senior leaders who’ve built and scaled high-performing teams, navigated critical growth phases, and delivered at the frontier of emerging technology.</p> <p>Whether your background is in engineering, research, operations, or organizational leadership, you’ll help shape strategy, guide high-impact technical work, and build the structure and culture for a fast-moving, mission-driven organization. We’re building a lean, talent-dense team where every hire is critical and deeply trusted.</p> <p>We’re especially interested in:</p> <ul> <li>Founders and early execs who’ve scaled ambitious teams</li> <li>C-suite leaders from high-growth or deep tech environments</li> <li>Technical leaders who’ve shipped novel AI systems</li> <li>Operators experienced in high-stakes, high-velocity execution</li> </ul> <h2>Our values</h2> <p>Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.</p> <p><strong>Put mission and team first</strong></p> <p>All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.</p>