Goodfire
About Goodfire
Behind our name: Like fire, AI holds the potential for both immense benefit and significant risk. Just as mastering fire transformed human history, we believe the safe and intentional development of AI will shape the future of our species. Our goal is to tame this new fire.
Goodfire is an AI interpretability research company focused on understanding and designing AI systems that people can trust. Our mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI to build safe and powerful AI systems. We believe that deep research breakthroughs are necessary to make this possible.
Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We’ve raised $59M from investors like Menlo, Lightspeed and Anthropic and work with customers including Arc Institute, Mayo Clinic, and Rakuten.
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About Goodfire
Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building.
Scaling has proven powerful, but today's approach is fundamentally limited: we can't meaningfully understand, debug, or shape what models learn. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now.
We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software.
Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others.
About the role
We're looking for a Demand Gen Lead to sit at the intersection of marketing, research, and product and think strategically about how to reach the most technical builders in AI.
This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role where you will own the full demand funnel: from identifying and reaching the right prospects, to designing campaigns and experiments that generate qualified pipeline, to partnering closely with our Field Team to convert interest into meaningful long term partnerships.
Our buyers are CTOs, Heads of AI, and research leads training frontier models in their specific domains. They don't respond to generic outbound or played-out playbooks. You'll need to be creative, data-driven, and deeply thoughtful about how to earn the attention of people who are building the most advanced AI systems in the world.
Key responsibilities
- Build and own a highly personalized demand generation engine: design, execute, and optimize programs across outbound, strategic events, social, and high value content that excites frontier model builders before their very first call
- Run rigorous experiments: treat demand gen like a growth problem - form hypotheses, launch tests, analyze results, and double down on what works
- Construct highly targeted outreach: use product signals, research engagement, event attendance, and market intelligence to build precise prospect lists and tailor messaging to technical buyers
- Build the infrastructure: stand up the tools, workflows, and reporting needed to run a data-driven demand generation function
What you’ll bring
Required experience
- Demonstrated ability to build pipeline selling to technical or research-oriented buyers.
- Experience designing and running multi-channel campaigns — outbound, events, ABM, paid, content — and measuring their impact on pipeline and revenue.
- Scrappiness, creativity, and a bias toward action. You're a builder, not an optimizer of someone else's machine.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity - our market is new, our buyers are novel, and the playbook doesn't exist yet.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience as an early demand gen or growth hire at a high-growth startup, where you built the function from scratch.
- Familiarity with selling to AI/ML teams, research organizations, or deeply technical enterprise buyers.
- Experience using product-led growth signals or community engagement data to identify high-intent prospects.
Our values
Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.
Put mission and team first
All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
Improve constantly
We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.
Take ownership and initiative
There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.
Action today
We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.
Where we work
We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco HQ. We are in person 5 days a week, with one company-wide remote week per month.
What we offer
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $200,000 - $375,000 USD.
Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory — we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life’s work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.
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About Goodfire
Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building.
Scaling has proven powerful, but today's approach is fundamentally limited: we can't meaningfully understand, debug, or shape what models learn. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now.
We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software.
Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others.
About the role
We're looking for a Product Marketing Lead to tell the Goodfire story to the AI researchers, engineers, and technical leaders who are building and training AI models. This role demands a rare combination: the technical credibility to engage deeply with an audience that trains AI models, the instinct to translate complex research into accessible stories, and the strategic vision to create a new category in the AI market.
This is a foundational role where you will define how the world understands what interpretability makes possible. That means owning our messaging strategy end to end: crafting positioning and messaging, orchestrating product launches, and shaping the broader market narrative around interpretability as a critical capability for the next generation of AI.
You will need to deeply understand our research, our product, and our market - translating frontier science into compelling value propositions that resonate with Heads of AI, CTOs, and research leaders at the companies building the most important models in the world.
Key responsibilities
- Own positioning, messaging, and narrative: define how Goodfire and our platform are understood in market
- Shape the category: establish an interpretability platform as a must-have capability in the AI stack through thought leadership, content, and strategic communications
- Drive product launches: plan and execute launches that generate awareness and pipeline, from major research milestones to new platform capabilities
- Build deep market intelligence: develop a rigorous understanding of the competitive landscape, buyer needs, and emerging use cases across verticals — and translate those insights into product and go-to-market strategy
- Create sales enablement and field materials: arm our forward-deployed team with the positioning, demos, case studies, and collateral they need to win technical buyers
What you’ll bring
Required experience
- Strong ability to translate highly technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for deeply technical audiences (researchers, ML engineers, Heads of AI).
- Strong strategic instincts and the ability to build a go-to-market playbook from scratch in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
- Experience speaking to deeply technical buyers at AI labs, frontier model companies, or research-driven organizations.
- Scrappiness, speed, and a bias toward action. You ship, measure, and iterate — not deck-build.
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated experience owning product marketing end-to-end at an infrastructure, developer tools, or AI company - from positioning through launch execution and sales enablement.
- Background as an early marketing hire at a high-growth startup, or experience building a product marketing function from the ground up.
- Familiarity with the AI research landscape - interpretability, model training, alignment, and the broader ecosystem of labs and model developers.
- Track record of defining or shaping a new product category.
Our values
Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.
Put mission and team first
All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
Improve constantly
We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.
Take ownership and initiative
There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.
Action today
We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.
Where we work
We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco HQ. We are in person 5 days a week, with one company-wide remote week per month.
What we offer
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $200,000 - $375,000 USD.
Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory — we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life’s work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Goodfire
About Goodfire
Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building.
Scaling has proven powerful, but today's approach is fundamentally limited: we can't meaningfully understand, debug, or shape what models learn. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now.
We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software.
Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others.
About the role
We are looking for a Brand & Growth Lead to own Goodfire’s public voice, particularly on X. This is a unique position responsible for communicating how our research advances are creating a new paradigm in deep learning that allows researchers to understand, debug, and design AI models like written software.
You will work closely with both our research and go-to-market teams to translate our research results into compelling stories that shape the public conversation, drive inbound interest, and attract world-class researchers and engineers.
You should have deep fluency in the AI landscape, exceptional storytelling ability, excellent taste, and high agency. You should have built a significant following on X before and have a track record of public communications that you're proud of and can share.
Key responsibilities
- Own Goodfire's social media strategy and execution. Build a distinctive, high-credibility presence that increases awareness of Goodfire and our capabilities.
- Turn complex research into threads, essays, blog posts, and explainers that technical audiences love to read, in topics from from core research breakthroughs to applied work with our partners in areas like life sciences.
- Drive measurable inbound demand and recruiting interest through brand and content efforts.
- Shape Goodfire's external narrative: how we talk about our capabilities, why it matters, and where the field is going.
- Partner with founders and researchers to amplify their voices, helping them develop their social presence and translating their thinking into public-facing content.
What you’ll bring
Required experience
- 5+ years in brand, marketing, communications, growth, or adjacent roles – though we're also open to candidates from AI research without a traditional marketing background.
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly and persuasively.
- Demonstrated success building audiences and driving engagement on social media
- Familiarity with the AI landscape and the narratives shaping the field.
- Strong taste and judgment around messaging, storytelling, and public communication.
- Excellent long and short form written communication skills
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working in AI, machine learning, developer tools, or research-driven companies.
- Experience working closely with researchers or technical founders.
- Early-stage startup experience
- Experience marketing or communicating to technical audiences in life sciences or biotech
Our values
Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.
Put mission and team first
All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
Improve constantly
We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.
Take ownership and initiative
There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.
Action today
We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.
Where we work
We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco HQ. We are in person 5 days a week, with one company-wide remote week per month.
What we offer
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $150,000 - $300,000 USD
Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory — we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life’s work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Goodfire
About Goodfire
Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building.
Scaling has proven powerful, but today's approach is fundamentally limited: we can't meaningfully understand, debug, or shape what models learn. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now.
We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software.
Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others.
About the role
We’re seeking a Technical Product Marketing Manager (TPMM) to lead our technical product marketing and brand strategy.
In this role, you’ll articulate our company vision to AI engineers, enterprise technical leaders, and other key stakeholders - communicating why interpretability matters and how Goodfire’s platform, Ember, enables end users to deliver more useful AI systems.
As Goodfire’s first technical product marketing hire, you’ll play a pivotal role in defining how we communicate our mission and products to the world, bridging technical depth with narrative clarity, and shaping both our external brand and GTM story.
Key responsibilities:
- Shape the narrative of interpretable AI development. Define and communicate how Goodfire changes the way people think about developing AI. You’ll translate our breakthroughs in interpretability into stories that resonate with AI practitioners, enterprise partners, and the broader public
- Lead enterprise and technical product marketing Craft product positioning that speaks both to practitioners (ML engineers) and executive sponsors (CTOs, Chief Scientists).
- Own the field and partner story. Design narratives that land customers: build decks, demos, and success stories that help applied/GTM teams close accounts and design partners.
- Drive cultural relevance. Understand what AI leaders, builders, and the chronically online are talking about and communicate how Goodfire is relevant.
- Collaborate across every function. Work with product, research, eng to launch initiatives that feel both technically rigorous and visually powerful. Every launch should move both the enterprise market and the broader AI discourse.
What you’ll bring
You’re an experienced technical product marketer with experience shaping compelling product narratives and moonshot research directions.
Required experience
- 4+ years of experience in technical product marketing or a related role (DevRel, GTM, Product)
- Proven ability to understand and communicate technical concepts clearly
- Excellent storytelling and writing skills, with examples of impactful narratives or launches
- Strong editorial and design instincts, you care about how ideas look and feel
- Self-starter mentality: you identify needs, prioritize effectively, and unblock yourself
- Experience collaborating closely with highly technical research, product, and engineering teams
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment
- Experience working with state of the art AI models
- Prior experience creating content for technical or enterprise audiences
- Familiarity with interpretability techniques and SOTA tooling for AI model
Our values
Goodfire is looking for individuals who embody our values and share our deep commitment to making interpretability accessible. We are building a team first and foremost.
Put mission and team first
All we do is in service of our mission. We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
Improve constantly
We are constantly looking to improve every piece of the business. We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization. We are pragmatic and consistently implement the obvious fixes that work.
Take ownership and initiative
There are no bystanders here. We proactively identify problems and take full responsibility over getting a strong result. We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.
Action today
We have a small amount of time to do something incredibly hard and meaningful. The pace and intensity of the organization is high. If we can take action today or tomorrow, we will choose to do it today.
Where we work
We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco HQ. We are in person 5 days a week, with one company-wide remote week per month.
What we offer
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $175,000 - $300,000 USD
Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory — we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life’s work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Goodfire