Account Executive, Life Sciences

About Goodfire

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research lab. We build interpretability agents and infrastructure to understand, monitor, and align AI models.

We believe that AI is the most consequential technology of our time. Yet AI models are trained by trial and error today, with limited understanding of what drives their behavior. Our goal is to advance the research and technology needed to fully understand and align AI so humanity can trust superintelligence.

Goodfire is a public benefit corporation founded by researchers who helped pioneer the field of interpretability at OpenAI and Google DeepMind. We are headquartered in San Francisco and have raised over $200M from leading investors including Lightspeed, Menlo, and B Capital.

About the role

We're looking for an Account Executive, Life Sciences to create and close strategic partnerships with the teams using AI to transform drug discovery, biology, clinical development, and the broader life sciences ecosystem. This role demands consultative selling ability, technical curiosity, and domain judgment: the ability to understand how life sciences organizations are building models and where Goodfire can create concrete value.

This is a high-autonomy role where you will help define our Life Sciences go-to-market motion from the ground up. You will own strategic accounts end to end: identifying high-potential organizations, building relationships with technical and executive buyers, partnering with the Field Team to scope pilots, negotiating commercial terms, and expanding successful engagements into long-term partnerships.

Our buyers are Heads of AI, CTOs, research leaders, and technical executives inside organizations trying to use frontier models in high-stakes scientific workflows. You'll need to be thoughtful, technically curious, direct, and credible enough to earn trust with people applying AI to some of the most complex problems in the world.

Key responsibilities

Own strategic Life Sciences sales cycles: build pipeline, run discovery, navigate technical and executive stakeholders, negotiate agreements, and close new partnerships

Develop rigorous account strategy: identify where Goodfire can create value across pharma, biotech, research organizations, AI-native life sciences companies, and adjacent scientific teams

Translate scientific and technical needs into commercial opportunities: understand customer workflows, model development challenges, validation requirements, and internal buying dynamics

Partner with the Field Team: shape pilots, technical scopes, success criteria, and expansion paths that demonstrate real impact for life sciences customers

Bring market signal back to the company: share customer needs, objections, competitive context, and emerging use cases with product, research, marketing, and leadership

What you’ll bring

Required experience

Experience owning and closing complex sales cycles with technical, scientific, or research-oriented buyers.

Strong discovery, commercial judgment, and ability to connect a technical product to a concrete customer problem.

Ability to learn AI/ML and life sciences concepts quickly and communicate credibly with researchers, engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and scientific leaders.

High agency, strong written and verbal communication, and comfort operating without a fully mature sales playbook.

Preferred qualifications

Experience selling AI/ML, data platforms, scientific software, infrastructure, developer tools, or enterprise products into life sciences organizations.

Familiarity with pharma, biotech, computational biology, drug discovery, clinical development, or scientific research workflows.

Experience as an early AE or founding GTM hire at a high-growth startup where you helped define the sales motion.

Experience with land-and-expand motions involving pilots, technical validation, services, or platform adoption.

Our values

Goodfire is looking for individuals who embo …