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GoodfireAbout the role
<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>Don't see the right role for you?</h2> <p>We're always hiring exceptionally talented people. If none of the current openings are a fit, then please apply here and we'll be happy to review your information and see if we might have a role open for you. Our team will continue to monitor incoming profiles and will reach out when we have an opportunity that could be a fit.</p> <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> <p><strong>Improve constantly</strong></p> <p>We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.</p> <p><strong>Take ownership and initiative</strong></p> <p>There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.</p> <p><strong>Action today</str
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