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Forward Deployed Engineer

Goodfire AI· Research and Development
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San Francisco, CA$200k - $325kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for the technical delivery of Goodfire’s interpretability platform inside partner environments, spanning integration, pilots, and collaboration with customer engineering and research teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical delivery for partner engagements: build production-grade integrations of Goodfire's platform into customer environments — from API integrations and custom pipelines to internal tooling and evaluation workflows
  • Run pilots that prove value fast: design and execute creative, short-timeline pilots that demonstrate the platform's impact, often in parallel with or ahead of longer-term solution scoping
  • Embed with partner engineering teams: serve as the day-to-day technical point of contact, going deep in their codebase, understanding their infrastructure, and building trust through competence
  • Compound learnings across engagements: bring field insights back to the platform and research teams, identify repeatable patterns, and build shared tooling and playbooks that scale the Field Team
  • Bridge research and production: take novel interpretability methods from the Foundational Team and figure out how to make them work reliably in a partner's stack — reading papers, prototyping new techniques, and hardening them for production use

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering skills with production experience in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX)
  • Ability to work across research and engineering boundaries - understand a new technique and ship it
  • Scrappiness, persistence in ambiguity, quick learning, generalist mindset
  • Strong communication skills to explain technical tradeoffs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required:PythonML frameworksCross-functional collaborationCommunication
Nice to have:Customer-facing/forward-deployed experience

Benefits

  • Market competitive salary
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits
Last updated Sep 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Goodfire AI

Goodfire AI is an AI interpretability research lab focused on understanding and intentionally designing advanced AI systems.

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