What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer position at Gild?
Gild Overview
Filling open skilled-trade positions is one of the greatest challenges facing critical American industry today. At Gild, our mission is to revitalize the trades and power a new era of growth—starting by supercharging workforce recruitment. We're tackling a nationwide labor shortage projected to cost the U.S. economy an estimated $2.5 trillion by 2028 if left unaddressed. From schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, to the places we live—the most important things being built in America are missing something crucial…the people to build them. We partner with national, regional, and local specialty trade contractors to build robust talent pipelines, connecting them with the dedicated professionals who form the backbone of our economy. Backed by Afore Capital, Gild is steadfast in our commitment to unlocking the potential of America’s skilled workforce.
Job Overview
As a Founding Engineer at Gild, you will take ownership across the stack - frontend, backend, and infrastructure. You will build solutions for customers quickly, iterate, build things for scale, and repeat. Think forward deployed engineer with more ownership and autonomy. We are working with some of the newest and most interesting AI infra, from voice and vision models, to transcription and generative content. We apply these solutions across various stakeholders like trade schools, national contractors, and job-seekers to automate workflows and make the impossible, possible. This role will spearhead all things AI development from refining and improving on existing components and building in house solutions from the ground up. Product velocity is at the core of everything we do.
The ideal candidate for this role is someone who truly thrives in ambiguity, embraces high levels of agency and autonomy, demonstrates world-class technical expertise, and yearns for an entrepreneurial environment.
The ideal candidate is NOT this :
- A Perfectionist. Tendency to overdesign something and to spend 4 weeks building the perfect implementation versus 1 week building the thing that "just works" for 95% of the time."
- Someone who lacks urgency. If you are used to, and enjoy, a company setting where it is okay for a project to take a few extra weeks, this role is not for you.
- Someone who dislikes seeing things through, end to end.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications and Skills Required
Benefits and Perks
To Apply :
To apply for this position, complete the application on LinkedIn OR email tyler@getgild.com with your resume and why you're interested in the role.
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