# Forward Deployed Engineer 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: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $325K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/goodfire/jobs/5188847008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/goodfire-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to be the technical backbone of our customer engagements, the person who takes our interpretability platform and makes it work inside a partner's environment, end-to-end. This role demands strong engineering capability, the ability to learn new domains fast, the creativity to design solutions under real-world constraints, and the comfort to operate directly alongside customer engineering and research teams.

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering skills with production experience in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX)
- Ability to work across research and engineering boundaries - you can understand a new technique and figure out how to ship it
- Scrappiness, willingness to persist in ambiguity, ability to learn quickly, and a generalist "can-do" mindset
- Strong communication skills - you can explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Tags: Research and Development