Head of Engineering, Platform

Goodfire
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 300,000 - 450,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Team-building","Recruiting","Communication"]

Lead the engineering team building Goodfire's core platform, spanning ML infrastructure, training, and customer-facing interfaces. This role requires hands-on technical leadership, recruiting top ML engineers, and shaping a high-performance culture to scale frontier AI, with ownership from software interfaces to deployment, while collaborating with customers and GTM teams.

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Goodfire
Goodfire
8 months ago

Head of Engineering, Platform

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering team building Goodfire's core platform, spanning ML infrastructure, training, and customer-facing interfaces. This role requires hands-on technical leadership, recruiting top ML engineers, and shaping a high-performance culture to scale frontier AI, with ownership from software interfaces to deployment, while collaborating with customers and GTM teams.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Be a Key Technical Contributor: Direct technical execution at the highest level; Convert state-of-the-art research into scalable, product-grade tools; Oversee infrastructure for model interpretability, training, and inference at frontier scale.
  • •Build an Exemplary Engineering Team: Recruit, hire, and retain top ML engineers; Develop and execute a hiring strategy to attract top talent; Foster a high-performance culture to tackle hard AI problems.
  • •Own Outcomes End-to-End: Drive adoption of Goodfire's core platform; Collaborate with customers and GTM teams; Shape Goodfire's culture and values as the company scales.
  • •Collaborate with research and product partners to align platform capabilities with strategic AI safety and interpretability goals.
  • •Ensure robust software interfaces for public consumption and maintain high reliability for large-scale training runs.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 300,000 - 450,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles
  • •Demonstrated success building and scaling engineering teams at high-growth startups or frontier AI labs
  • •Exceptional track record recruiting machine learning engineers from top AI organizations
  • •Deep technical expertise in ML infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale model training
  • •Hands-on proficiency with PyTorch or JAX, modern ML tooling and inference engines
Experience:10+ yearsFrontier AIAI safetyInterpretability
Skills:LeadershipTeam-buildingRecruitingCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PyTorchJAXDistributed systemsModel trainingInferenceML tooling

Company Brief

Goodfire
Goodfire builds AI-powered developer and business tools to help teams generate, integrate, and deploy custom large-language-model applications. Their platform focuses on simplifying prompt engineering, model orchestration, and secure data connectivity for enterprise AI workflows.
Industry: Developer Tools
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