Head of Recruiting
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 hiring a Head of Recruiting to scale the highest-performing AI research organization in the world. You'll own our recruiting strategy and build a hiring engine that consistently identifies and closes exceptional talent. You'll work closely with our founders and technical leaders to internalize our hiring bar, and never lower it.
We're looking for a systems thinker who can turn recruiting into a repeatable machine. You should be the kind of person who builds a map of every strong interpretability researcher in the world, and knows how to reach each one.
You'll also thrive in a high-intensity environment and move with urgency. You'll build a team that matches our pace while giving candidates an exceptional experience and representing our culture well.
This role reports to the CEO.
Key responsibilities
- Own Goodfire’s hiring strategy and execution across all functions
- Build a sourcing engine that maps and reaches the strongest researchers and engineers in the world before they're on the market
- Own the interview process end to end
- Define and defend the hiring bar in partnership with founders and technical leaders
- Own recruiting data and forecasting: pipeline health, conversion, time-to-close, and the headcount plan behind them
- Own candidate experience and how Goodfire shows up to the market, from first outreach to signed offer
- Hire and lead a recruiting team that matches the pace of the company, while staying deeply hands-on in the funnel
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 office who’d be onsite 5 days a week.
What we offer
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $400-500k.
This role reports to our CEO.
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.