General Interest (Senior Leadership)

Goodfire; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Goodfire is seeking senior leadership to help scale a mission-driven, high-impact organization focused on AI interpretability. You will help shape strategy, guide critical technical work, and build the structure and culture necessary for rapid growth.

We value leaders who have built and scaled teams, navigated growth phases, and can operate across engineering, research, operations, and organizational leadership to advance our ambitious goals.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of scaling high-performing teams.
• Experience leading executives and shaping company strategy.
• Ability to guide high-impact technical work and organizational culture.

Responsibilities

• Shape overall strategy and roadmap for AI interpretability initiatives.
• Guide high-impact technical programs and teams.
• Build organizational structure and culture for a fast-moving, mission-driven group.

Skills

Senior leadership

Team scaling

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Job description

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab. We build interpretability agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.

We believe that AI is the most consequential technology of our time. Yet AI models are trained by trial and error today, with limited understanding of what drives their behavior. Our goal is to advance the research and technology needed to fully understand and align AI so humanity can trust superintelligence.

Goodfire is a public benefit corporation founded by researchers who helped pioneer the field of interpretability at OpenAI and Google DeepMind. We are headquartered in San Francisco and have raised over $200M from leading investors including Lightspeed, Menlo, and B Capital.

Senior Leadership - Expression of Interest

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.

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.

We're especially interested in:

• Founders and early execs who've scaled ambitious teams
• C-suite leaders from high-growth or deep tech environments
• Technical leaders who've shipped novel AI systems
• Operators experienced in high-stakes, high-velocity execution

Our values

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.

Put mission and team first

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.

Improve constantly

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.

Take ownership and initiative

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.

Action today

We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.

Where we work

We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco HQ. We are in person 5 days a week, with one company-wide remote week per month.

If you share our values and have relevant experience, we encourage you to apply and join us in shaping the future of how we design AI systems.

• We offer market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.