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 hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to build our entire talent acquisition function as we scale. You'll be a hands-on, strategic partner to our founders, owning all hiring across AI/ML research engineering, product, and go-to-market roles.
What they're looking for
- 5-10 years of recruiting experience, with 3+ years in early-stage startup or research-intensive environments
- 2+ years recruiting specifically for AI/ML, research engineering, or ML infrastructure roles (strongly preferred)
- Proven ability to recruit across both technical (engineering, research) AND non-technical (GTM, product, ops) roles
- Sole operator experience: You've been THE recruiting function or founding recruiter before & are comfortable operating independently
- Quality over quantity mindset: You measure success by quality of hires, not speed or volume. You protect the bar aggressively
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 hiring a Senior Technical Recruiter to build our entire talent acquisition function as we scale. You'll be a hands-on, strategic partner to our founders, owning all hiring across AI/ML research engineering, product, and go-to-market roles.
You'll perform full cycle recruiting from sourcing and screening through offer stage while building the recruiting infrastructure that will scale with us. You'll take a consultative approach, partnering with our Founders...
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