Goodfire
Goodfire summarizes products and services around AI interpretability research and tools that help organizations understand, debug, and design Artificial Intelligence models beyond traditional black-box approaches. It offers methods to translate internal model reasoning into human-readable insights, intentionally shape model behavior to align with specific objectives, and conduct foundational resea
29 open roles
Engineering job in San Francisco · Engineering job in New York
Roles are read from Goodfire’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Goodfire hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Goodfire has the 190th most open roles of 2,946 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 29 open roles is 2.1× the average Series B startup here (14.1).
- 24% of openings are in Other, then Engineering (17%).
- Most roles are mid level (72%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 10, these openings would grow headcount by up to 290%.
- Median posted pay of $287k is 59% above the Series B startup median ($180k).
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- Other pay here (median $288k) is 121% above the market median for Other ($130k).
- 62% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 97% of postings mention equity.
- 1 posting say they don’t sponsor visas.
- 29 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 5 months old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Momentum, explained
- Goodfire hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 29
- Roles added in 30 days
- 29
- Roles added in 90 days
- 29
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #190
- of 2,946 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 2.90
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 29
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 1
- 3% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 5 months
- Oldest: 27 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $287k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $264k–$300k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 62%
- 18 of 29
- Mention equity
- 97%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- 1 say they don’t
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
Breakdowns
- 1Other724%
- 2Engineering517%
- 3People517%
- 4Science414%
- 5Sales310%
- 6Operations27%
- 7Legal13%
- 8Marketing13%
- 1Mid level2172%
- 2Executive414%
- 3Senior310%
- 4Manager13%
- 1Not stated29100%
- 1San Francisco2897%
- 2London13%
- 1Not stated29100%
- 1Research and Development1034%
- 2GTM724%
- 3General621%
- 4People517%
- 5Fellowships13%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Goodfire role.