# Head of Recruiting 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
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/goodfire/jobs/5405524008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/goodfire-head-of-recruiting/

## 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

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