Goodfire

AI

SecurityArchitect

$250–400k San Francisco, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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

The Brief

“Security Architect at Goodfire. Skills: Cloud security, Identity management, Security architecture. Design security controls. Implement security controls”

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years security engineering, Foundation in cloud security, Experience with identity management, Experience with SSO, Experience with access control systems, Experience with compliance frameworks

Nice to Have

Experience at early-stage startup, Building security programs from scratch, Background in ML infrastructure, Familiarity with ML training workflows, Physical security experience

What You'll Do.

Design security controls

Implement security controls

Own identity management

Manage endpoint security

Establish security monitoring

Maintain security monitoring

Establish logging capabilities

Maintain logging capabilities

Establish incident response

Maintain incident response

Conduct security assessments

Remediate vulnerabilities

Develop security policies

Maintain security policies

Develop compliance frameworks

Maintain compliance frameworks

Manage physical security systems

Respond to security incidents

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 Security Architect to own IT and physical security operations at Goodfire. The stakes in AI development are extremely high, and we need to protect ourselves against sophisticated threats. In this role, you will lead our efforts to keep Goodfire secure against global risks. This is a foundational role. Your responsibilities will include protecting our cloud infrastructure, securing company intellectual property, managing access to IT systems, and overseeing physical security for our offices. You will defend Goodfire against sophisticated actors seeking to infiltrate our systems. This position reports directly to the CTO. Where you'll contribute Infrastructure & DevOps – Protecting our cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and production systems from attackers.

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