About the roleWe're hiring a Compute Lead to own one of the most critical resources at the company: our compute for model training, research, and customers. You'll run everything from how we allocate our compute to how we source, test, and secure capacity. You'll make the day-to-day calls that determine how far our world-class research and product ambitions can go.
We're looking for someone who can navigate GPU scarcity and partner negotiations with rigor, and moves with exceptional urgency. You'll need strong judgment to balance competing demands across teams and the conviction to make hard trade-offs rather than split the difference. You might be the right fit if you find the intersection of infrastructure, operations, and high-stakes resource allocation exhilarating.
Key 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
Where we workWe are hiring for this position in our San Francisco office who'd be onsite 5 days a week.
What we offerThis role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
The expected salary range for this position is $200-400k.
This role reports to our Head of Finance.
Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory - we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity. If you want to do your life's work with us, even if you believe you do not meet every single requirement, apply now.
