# Compute Lead at Goodfire

- Company: Goodfire
- What the company does: Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab focused on understanding and intentionally designing advanced AI systems. Backed by Lightspeed, AI Grant and Menlo.
- Company website: https://goodfire.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/goodfire/jobs/5435688008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/goodfire-compute-lead/

## About the role

We’re hiring a Compute Lead to own one of the most critical resources at the company: our compute for model training, research, and customers. You’ll run everything from how we allocate our compute to how we source, test, and secure capacity. You’ll make the day-to-day calls that determine how far our world-class research and product ambitions can go.

## What they're looking for

- Manage Goodfire’s compute allocations across training, research, and customer workloads
- Source and secure capacity: gather availability and pricing across providers, move quickly on the best options, and take deals from first call through contract and delivery
- Own cluster acceptance testing: define acceptance criteria with our infrastructure team and run burn-in and performance testing before we sign off
- Monitor cluster health once live: track node failures and downtime, and drive fixes with providers
- Track utilization and quota usage by project, flag idle or underused capacity, and reallocate quickly so GPUs are going to our highest-priority work
- Partner closely with research and product teams to translate roadmaps into concrete compute requirements and ensure infrastructure never becomes a bottleneck

Tags: Research and Development