Applied AI Lead

Core responsibilities:

• Build and scale a vertical: prove product-market fit, define solutions, win new prospects, and drive sustained growth
• Own technical delivery: direct what we build and ensure it solves real problems for partners
• Manage partnerships end-to-end: from initial scoping and sale, to delivering value and demonstrating impact, to securing renewals and expanding accounts
• Lead a forward-deployed team of engineers and research scientists to deliver technical solutions
• Shape new products and solutions: translate frontier interpretability research into repeatable products, platforms, or services

This role turns frontier research into real-world impact, allowing advances in the science of interpretability to unlock the promise of safe and powerful AI, contributing to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity.

Required skills and experience:

• Experience as a founder, product manager, engineering manager, or general manager
• Track record of excellence in a high growth startup
• Strong technical fluency with a proven track record of working effectively with engineers
• Experience leading cross-functional, technical teams
• Strong understanding of modern AI technology
• Scrappiness, willingness to persist in ambiguity, ability to learn quickly, and a generalist "can-do" mindset

Market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits. The expected salary range is $225,000 - $350,000 USD (depending on level and scope).

Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Their mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI by understanding the intelligence being built, advancing the science of how AI systems actually work.