Senior Technical Sourcer, Recruiting

Like fire, AI holds the potential for both immense benefit and significant risk. Just as mastering fire transformed human history, we believe the safe and intentional development of AI will shape the future of our species. Our goal is to tame this new fire.
Our mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI to build safe and powerful AI systems. We’ve raised $59M from investors like Menlo, Lightspeed and Anthropic and work with customers including Arc Institute, Mayo Clinic, and Rakuten.
We're hiring a Senior Founding Recruiter to build our entire talent acquisition function as we scale. You'll be a hands‑on, strategic partner to our founders, owning all hiring across AI/ML research engineering, product, and go‑to‑market roles.
You'll perform full cycle recruiting from sourcing and screening through offer stage while building the recruiting infrastructure that will scale with us. You're focused on quality over quantity and understand that in AI safety and interpretability research, small, talent‑dense teams win.
You'll stay embedded in the SF AI scene, maintain a warm pipeline of standout talent, and help shape who joins Goodfire as we scale.
Own end‑to‑end recruiting across AI/ML research scientists, research engineers, ML infrastructure, security, and non‑technical roles (ops, GTM, etc) as needed
Build and maintain a proactive pipeline of top AI talent so we’re never starting from zero when a role opens
Stay embedded in the AI community: actively participate in SF/Bay Area AI events, networking meetups, and conferences; Design interview loops, ensure bar alignment, and build recruiting infrastructure that will scale with the company while executing all IC recruiting work yourself
5‑10 years of recruiting experience, with 3+ years in early‑stage startup or research‑intensive environments

• 2+ years recruiting specifically for AI/ML, research engineering, or ML infrastructure roles (strongly preferred)
• Proven ability to recruit across both technical (engineering, research) AND non‑technical (GTM, product, ops) roles
• You’ve been THE recruiting function or founding recruiter before & are comfortable operating independently
• Quality over quantity mindset: You measure success by quality of hires, not speed or volume. Experience recruiting for frontier AI labs, LLM startups, or research heavy engineering orgs.

STEM degree (BS/MS/PhD) or equivalent technical background/fluency.
Existing network in the SF / Bay Area AI ecosystem
We are building a team first and foremost.
We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
We are self‑driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we’re building.
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $120,000–$280,000 base salary + equity (no bonus).