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Salary: USD 400,000 - 500,000 / annual
Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. The company is backed by over $200M from top-tier investors including B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, and Eric Schmidt, and is headquartered in San Francisco with a team of world-class interpretability researchers and engineers from OpenAI and DeepMind.
As Head of Recruiting, you will own Goodfire's hiring strategy and execution across all functions, reporting directly to the CEO. This is a VP-level role responsible for building a world-class recruiting organization that can identify and close exceptional talent in AI research and engineering.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning Goodfire's hiring strategy and execution across all functions
- Building a sourcing engine that maps and reaches the strongest researchers and engineers globally before they enter the market
- Owning the interview process end-to-end and defining the hiring bar in partnership with founders and technical leaders
- Managing recruiting data, forecasting pipeline health, conversion rates, time-to-close, and headcount planning
- Owning candidate experience and how Goodfire presents itself to the market from first outreach through offer signature
- Hiring and leading a recruiting team that matches the company's pace while staying deeply hands-on in the funnel
You should be a systems thinker who can turn recruiting into a repeatable machine. The ideal candidate thrives in high-intensity environments, moves with urgency, and has deep expertise in sourcing and closing top-tier technical talent. This role requires someone who can build relationships with the world's leading interpretability researchers and understands how to recruit in competitive, specialized talent markets.
The company values mission-first thinking, continuous improvement, ownership and initiative, and action-oriented execution. You'll be joining at a critical inflection point for AI safety and interpretability research.
