Goodfire recruits interpretability research scientists, pitches scaling lab staff on AI safety
leedsharkey · x · 2026-09-12
Goodfire posted a job call for Research Scientists (London & SF), arguing there has never been a more pressing time for safety research—especially interpretability—and directly pitching people at scaling labs. Goodfire is a public benefit corporation building AI that can be understood, debugged, and steered like software, with interpretability researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind and over $200M in backing from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt and others. The role spans interpretability mechanisms, high-upside moonshots, and applied research turning findings into usable tools.
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