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We build interpretability agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.\nWe 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.\nGoodfire 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.\nAbout the role\nWe're looking for an Account Executive, Life Sciences to create and close strategic partnerships with the teams using AI to transform drug discovery, biology, clinical development, and the broader life sciences ecosystem. This role demands consultative selling ability, technical curiosity, and domain judgment: the ability to understand how life sciences organizations are building models and where Goodfire can create concrete value.\nThis is a high-autonomy role where you will help define our Life Sciences go-to-market motion from the ground up. You will own strategic accounts end to end: identifying high-potential organizations, building relationships with technical and executive buyers, partnering with the Field Team to scope pilots, negotiating commercial terms, and expanding successful engagements into long-term partnerships.\nOur buyers are Heads of AI, CTOs, research leaders, and technical executives inside organizations trying to use frontier models in high-stakes scientific workflows. You'll need to be thoughtful, technically curious, direct, and credible enough to earn trust with people applying AI to some of the most complex problems in the world.\nKey responsibilities\nOwn strategic Life Sciences sales cycles: build pipeline, run discovery, navigate technical and executive stakeholders, negotiate agreements, and close new partnerships\nDevelop rigorous account strategy: identify where Goodfire can create value across pharma, biotech, research organizations, AI-native life sciences companies, and adjacent scientific teams\nTranslate scientific and technical needs into commercial opportunities: understand customer workflows, model development challenges, validation requirements, and internal buying dynamics\nPartner with the Field Team: shape pilots, technical scopes, success criteria, and expansion paths that demonstrate real impact for life sciences customers\nBring market signal back to the company: share customer needs, objections, competitive context, and emerging use cases with product, research, marketing, and leadership\nWhat you’ll bring\nRequired experience\nExperience owning and closing complex sales cycles with technical, scientific, or research-oriented buyers.\nStrong discovery, commercial judgment, and ability to connect a technical product to a concrete customer problem.\nAbility to learn AI/ML and life sciences concepts quickly and communicate credibly with researchers, engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and scientific leaders.\nHigh agency, strong written and verbal communication, and comfort operating without a fully mature sales playbook.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience selling AI/ML, data platforms, scientific software, infrastructure, developer tools, or enterprise products into life sciences organizations.\nFamiliarity with pharma, biotech, computational biology, drug discovery, clinical development, or scientific research workflows.\nExperience as an early AE or founding GTM hire at a high-growth startup where you helped define the sales motion.\nExperience with land-and-expand motions involving pilots, technical validation, services, or platform adoption.\nOur values\nGoodfire 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.\nPut mission and team first\nAll 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.\nImprove constantly\nWe 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.\nTake ownership and initiative\nThere 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.\nAction today\nWe 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.\nWhere we work\nWe 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.\nWhat we offer\nThis role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.\nMost 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. 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