Head of Engineering, Platform

Goodfire•San Francisco, CA

3h•$300,000 - $450,000

About The Position

We're looking for a highly technical Head of Engineering to grow our core platform. At Goodfire, we believe that leaders need to be in the trenches with their team and that engineering leaders also need to be exceptional engineers. We're looking for someone who can do everything it takes to ensure our core platform’s success from developing clean software interfaces for public consumption, making large training runs go smoothly, and ensuring success with our customers and design partners. You’ll have extremely high ownership over a critical core of the business. You'll also be responsible for recruiting outstanding machine learning engineers from top AI labs to work on our mission. The right candidate is someone with existing networks in the frontier AI community and a proven track record of attracting and retaining top technical talent in a competitive market.

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.
Strong network within the AI/ML research and engineering community.
Genuine passion for AI safety, interpretability, and building systems that earn human trust.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience at a frontier AI lab or leading AI research organization.
Experience shipping ML products to enterprise or research customers.
Background in or familiarity with interpretability, alignment, or AI safety research.
Public presence in the AI community (publications, open-source contributions, speaking engagements).

Responsibilities

Be a Key Technical Contributor
Convert state-of-the-art research into scalable, product-grade tools with urgency.
Oversee infrastructure for model interpretability, training, and inference at frontier scale.
Build an Exemplary Engineering Team
Recruit, hire, and retain top machine learning engineers from leading AI research labs.
Develop and execute a hiring strategy that positions Goodfire as a destination for the best engineers in the field.
Foster a high-performance culture equipped to tackle some of the hardest problems in AI.
Own Outcomes End-to-End
Drive adoption of Goodfire's core platform.
Collaborate directly with customers and go-to-market teams.
Shape and reinforce Goodfire's culture and values as the company scales.