# Head of Engineering, Platform 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: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/goodfire/jobs/5071690008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/goodfire-head-of-engineering-platform/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Research and Development