Forward Deployed Engineer
Goodfire AI · San Francisco, CA · San Francisco
CHECKED 58M AGO
Infrastructureonsite$200k–$325k
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