Founding Engineer

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• Role: Engineering / Full stack
• Experience: 2+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only
• Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Python, TypeScript, SQL, Machine Learning, Supabase, SolidWorks

About GUILD

GUILD is building the Amazon for defense manufacturing. We're an AI-native defense prime: we win government contracts, route production across our network of vetted US factories, handle compliance, and deliver straight to the government's door.

Lockheed, Boeing, RTX and the rest of the primes are slow and expensive, and a broken procurement system protects them. Meanwhile the defense industrial base has shrunk 40%. The government pays too much, waits too long, and has nowhere else to go. We're here to beat the primes at their own game and fix how the government builds what the country needs.

We have won nearly $300K in DoD contracts in the last few months to manufacture fighter jet components for the Air Force. Today we make aerospace parts. Next we'll run our own automated factory and full defense programs.

We're backed by Y Combinator (S26), Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, Twenty Two Ventures, and others.

The role

You'll be GUILD's first engineering hire. Both founders write code today, and you'll build alongside us and own major parts of the platform.

You won't be starting from a blank page. Our platform is already running on live DoD work, and your job is to make it faster, smarter, and more reliable every week.

This is not a software-only job. Some weeks you'll be improving the agents that parse government technical data packages. Other weeks you'll be on the factory floor running 3D printers, working with a CNC machine, or redesigning a fixture.