About the role
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.
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the role We're hiring a Head of Compute to own the strategy behind one of the most critical resources at the company: our compute for model training, research, and customers. You'll own everything from how we allocate our compute to how we source capacity, whether that's renting, partnering, or owning our own GPUs. You’ll make the calls that determine how far our world-class research and product ambitions can go. We're looking for someone who can navigate GPU scarcity and partner negotiations with rigor, and moves with exceptional urgency. You'll need strong judgment to balance competing demands and the conviction to make hard trade-offs rather than split the difference. You may be the right fit if you find the intersection of infrastructure, strategy, and high-stakes resource allocation exhilarating. Key
responsibilities Own Goodfire’s compute strategy across training, research, and customer workloads Build and execute our compute sourcing strategy, deciding when to rent, partner, or own GPUs. Continuously optimize for cost, reliability, and strategic flexibility Secure the compute capacity and pricing that protect our ambitions under real GPU scarcity Own the economics of compute end-to-end, including vendor negotiations, contract strategy, capacity planning, utilization, and long-term impact Partner closely with research and product teams to translate roadmaps into concrete compute
