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Forward Deployed Engineer

Goodfire AI · San Francisco, CA · San Francisco

CHECKED 58M AGO

Infrastructureonsite$200k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Turn frontier interpretability research into deployed reality with partners.
  • Embed with partner engineering teams to run fast pilots proving platform impact.
  • Build production integrations into customer model training stacks end-to-end.

What they offer

  • Market competitive salary
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits

Ideal candidate

Scrappy, high-ownership generalist who thrives in ambiguity alongside customers and loves turning research into production. You care deeply about understanding and shaping AI and communicate clearly with technical teams.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills with production experience in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX).
  • Ability to work across research and engineering boundaries - you can understand a new technique and figure out how to ship it.
  • Scrappiness, willingness to persist in ambiguity, ability to learn quickly, and a generalist "can-do" mindset.
  • Strong communication skills - you can explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
remote policy
In person 5 days a week with one company-wide remote week per month

Lab profile

About Goodfire AI

AI interpretability research lab building agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.

What they build

  • Interpretability agents
  • Interpretability infrastructure

Known for

  • AI interpretability research
  • Model understanding and monitoring
  • AI alignment
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