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Security - Member of Technical Staff

Goodfire · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Goodfire

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab focused on understanding and intentionally designing advanced AI systems. Backed by Lightspeed, AI Grant and Menlo.

About the role

We’re looking for our first security hire to own security across our infrastructure, product, and company. The security landscape is changing daily as AI gets more capable, and we need to protect ourselves against sophisticated, fast-evolving threats. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years in security engineering, with hands-on ownership of cloud and infrastructure security
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience building security tooling
  • Experience running incident response and vulnerability management
  • Strong grasp of AI security, including how AI agents change the threat model and how to use them in security work
  • Willingness and humility to own anything security-related yourself, big or small
More about this role

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab. We build interpretability agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.

We believe that AI is the most consequential technology of our time. Yet AI models are trained by trial and error today, with limited understanding of what drives their behavior. Our goal is to advance the research and technology needed to fully understand and align AI so humanity can trust superintelligence.

Goodfire is a public benefit corporation founded by researchers who helped pioneer the field of interpretability at OpenAI and Google DeepMind. We are headquartered in San Francisco and have raised over $200M from leading investors including Lightspeed, Menlo, and B Capital.

We’re looking for our first security hire to own security across our infrastructure, product, and company. The security landscape is changing daily as AI gets more capable, and we need to protect ourselves against sophisticated, fast-evolving threats.

This is a foundational, hands-on role. We need a strong engineer who stays on top of new vulnerabilities and attacks, responds quickly when one could affect us, and understands how the threat model is evolving....

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