Head of Recruiting

Goodfire•San Francisco, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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. 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. 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. About the role We're hiring a Head of Recruiting to scale the highest-performing AI research organization in the world. You'll own our recruiting strategy and build a hiring engine that consistently identifies and closes exceptional talent. You'll work closely with our founders and technical leaders to internalize our hiring bar, and never lower it. We're looking for a systems thinker who can turn recruiting into a repeatable machine. You should be the kind of person who builds a map of every strong interpretability researcher in the world, and knows how to reach each one. You'll also thrive in a high-intensity environment and move with urgency. You'll build a team that matches our pace while giving candidates an exceptional experience and representing our culture well. This role reports to the CEO.

Requirements

Systems thinker who can turn recruiting into a repeatable machine
Ability to build a map of every strong interpretability researcher in the world, and knows how to reach each one
Thrive in a high-intensity environment and move with urgency
Ability to build a team that matches our pace while giving candidates an exceptional experience and representing our culture well

Nice To Haves

Embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible
Put mission and team first
Improve constantly
Take ownership and initiative
Action today

Responsibilities

Own Goodfire’s hiring strategy and execution across all functions
Build a sourcing engine that maps and reaches the strongest researchers and engineers in the world before they're on the market
Own the interview process end to end
Define and defend the hiring bar in partnership with founders and technical leaders
Own recruiting data and forecasting: pipeline health, conversion, time-to-close, and the headcount plan behind them
Own candidate experience and how Goodfire shows up to the market, from first outreach to signed offer
Hire and lead a recruiting team that matches the pace of the company, while staying deeply hands-on in the funnel