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Compute Lead

Goodfire AI· Research and Development
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San Francisco, CA$200k - $400kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Compute Lead responsible for managing and optimizing Goodfire's compute for model training, research, and customers, including capacity sourcing, testing, deployment, monitoring, and forecasting to prevent compute bottlenecks and enable long-term planning.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Goodfire’s compute allocations across training, research, and customer workloads
  • Source and secure capacity: gather availability and pricing across providers, move quickly on the best options, and take deals from first call through contract and delivery
  • Own cluster acceptance testing: define acceptance criteria with our infrastructure team and run burn-in and performance testing before we sign off
  • Monitor cluster health once live: track node failures and downtime, and drive fixes with providers
  • Track utilization and quota usage by project, flag idle or underused capacity, and reallocate quickly so GPUs are going to our highest-priority work
  • Partner closely with research and product teams to translate roadmaps into concrete compute requirements and ensure infrastructure never becomes a bottleneck
  • Build forecasting models that anticipate compute demand and enable confident long-term planning and budgeting

Skills

Required:Compute governanceVendor negotiationCluster testingMonitoring and observability

Benefits

  • market competitive salary
  • equity
  • competitive benefits
Last updated Sep 29, 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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