# Senior Counsel

About Goodfire 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. About the role We're hiring a Senior Counsel to be Goodfire's first in-house lawyer. You'll build the legal foundation of our company, wear a ton of hats, and be the person who defines our approach to interpretability and AI security contracts and regulations. You'll need a strong understanding of AI security and interpretability to inform your decisions on licensing, data rights, and regulation that are critical to our business. These are rapidly

- **Id**: 645531
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/goodfire-senior-counsel>
- **Role**: Legal
- **Role family**: Legal
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-10T18:47:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T10:39:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 59
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4179
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Explainable AI (XAI), AI Safety & Alignment, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 38138
- **Name**: Goodfire
- **Domain**: goodfire.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/goodfire>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: D
- **Score**: 52
- **Open postings**: 25
- **Ghost share**: 0.8
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Technologies

- **Interpretability** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 59

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T20:12:58Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.491
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 59
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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