Goodfire

Technology

SalesDevelopmentRepresentative

$65–85k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Sales Development Representative at Goodfire. Skills: Sales development, Technical outreach, AI systems. Build high-quality outbound pipeline. Identify AI labs”

Industry & Context.

Technology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Demonstrated ability to learn technical products quickly, Communicate clearly with technical or research-oriented buyers, High agency, persistence, Comfort operating without a fully built playbook, Organizational habits, Ability to manage many high-quality follow-ups

Nice to Have

Experience in SDR, AE, growth, founder-led sales, Familiarity with AI/ML teams, Familiarity with infrastructure, Familiarity with developer tools, Familiarity with research organizations, Familiarity with enterprise technical buyers, Track record of excellence in high-growth startup, Experience using research signals to identify prospects, Experience using product usage signals to identify prospects, Experience using community signals to identify prospects, Experience using event signals to identify prospects

What You'll Do.

Build high-quality outbound pipeline

Identify platform teams

Research platform teams

Identify model builders

Research model builders

Craft deeply personalized outreach

Translate account research into messages

Translate product signals into messages

Translate research milestones into messages

Translate market context into messages

Test qualification criteria

Partner with GTM teams

Partner with Field teams

Bring signal from prospects into account strategy

Bring signal from prospects into campaign design

Bring signal from prospects into sales conversations

Maintain rigorous pipeline operations

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with Field Team; Work with GTM; Work with founders

Communication Scope

Written communication; Technical communication

Full Job Description

About Goodfire Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building. Scaling has proven powerful, but today's approach is fundamentally limited: we can't meaningfully understand, debug, or shape what models learn. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now. We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software. Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others. About the role We're looking for a Sales Development Representative to be the first person who earns the attention of the technical leaders building the next generation of AI systems. This role demands curiosity, precision, and persistence: the ability to understand who is training models, recognize where Goodfire can create value, and start conversations that become strategic partnerships. This is a high-ownership role where you will help build the earliest motion for reaching frontier AI builders. You won't be running generic sales scripts; you'll research accounts deeply, craft targeted outreach, learn from every interaction, and help define how Goodfire creates pipeline in a category that is still being formed. You'll work closely with our Field Team, GTM, and founders to translate market

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