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title: 'Trunk Tools - Machine Learning Engineer at thenewclub.fyi'
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# Trunk Tools - Machine Learning Engineer at thenewclub.fyi

- **Company:** thenewclub.fyi
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2024-07-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/thenewclub-fyi/am9icG9zdDovb0T8EcHXKIlJWYGd8aVI

## Job description

At Trunk Tools, we are tackling the massive $13 trillion+ construction industry. We’re an exceptional team of serial entrepreneurs, brought together by our shared mission: automating construction. Our founding team (SpaceX, Stanford, MIT, Carta, etc.) has successfully built and deployed software in construction for 140k+ users, millions of users beyond the construction space, and worked on +$2 billion of built-environment projects. We aren’t another out-of-touch tech startup, most of our team comes from construction. We spent the last few years building the brain behind construction. Now we are deploying workflows/ agents, starting with Q&A document chatbot, to be ingrained in construction teams’ workflows, ultimately to automate construction. Given our immense traction with several Fortune 500 construction companies, we are doubling our team in order to deploy several more agents this year. You will have an opportunity to drive the transformation of a multi-trillion-dollar industry full of waste, risks and inefficiencies.

What you will do and achieve:

- Build and grow various features of our search stack like search ranking models, query parsing/understanding, natural language question answering, etc.
- Deeply understand search usage and user needs and identify gaps in the search stack
- Design, experiment with, and iterate on ML/NLP solutions to address gaps in the search stack
- Design and evolve experimentation framework to help evaluate improvements the search stack
- Write robust code that’s easy to read, maintain and test

Who you are:

- BA/BS in computer science, or related degree (math, physics)
- 5+ years of experience, especially with knowledge graphs and/or search
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work with data
- Experience working in fields like recommendation systems, natural language processing, applied machine learning, large scale production search/ranking system, large data pipelines or other related systems
- Have strong coding skills (for example in Go/Python/Java/C++ etc)
- Interest in construction
- Experience in building applications on top of LLMs in a production environment

## What we offer 😎

- 🎖️ A close-knit and collaborative early-stage startup environment where every voice is heard and every opinion matters; currently we're 16 team members
- 💰 Competitive salary and stock option equity packages
- 🏥 3 Medical Plans to choose from including 100% covered option. Plus Dental and Vision Insurance!
- 🤓 Learning & Growth stipend
- 🏠 Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
- 🥨 Free lunch provided in the office in NYC - you’ll never go hungry with us!
- 🛫 Unlimited PTO; We truly believe in work-life balance and that hard work should be balanced with time for rest and rejuvenation
- 🏝 IRL / In-Person retreats throughout the year

Salary range: $140,000 - $240,000 / year + equity

## About thenewclub.fyi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A members-only professional network for senior technical women+ that connects them with career opportunities, peer support, and exclusive resources to advance in engineering and tech leadership.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly available.

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Technology, Information, and Internet; Professional Networking; Talent & Recruiting
- Target customers: B2B (for companies seeking to hire diverse senior technical talent) and B2C (for individual senior technical women+ seeking career advancement and community)
- Mission or purpose statement: Dedicated to connecting senior technical women+ with leading companies committed to building diverse and inclusive teams, and fostering a community for network expansion and career navigation.

## Products & Services
- **Members-Only Community**: A curated network of 2,500+ senior technical women+ (as of the latest data) offering peer connections, in-person events, hackathons, retreats, and a digital Slack community.
- **Career Navigation & Placement**: Direct introductions to roles at pre-seed to Series C+ startups, along with resume review, interview preparation, mentorship, coaching, and salary negotiation support.
- **Company Partner Program**: A service for leading-edge startups to access and recruit vetted, senior technical female talent with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
- **Monthly Newsletter**: A evergreen resource for partner events, community news, and career opportunities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Seed-stage private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$3.1 million**
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The seed round was led by **Sierra Ventures** with participation from 11 investors (additional names not publicly listed).
- **Growth Signals**: Grew from a "small and mighty" community to over 1,058 members in its first year (and over 2,500 members per latest data). Has evolved from a full-time team to a monthly newsletter and partner event model, signaling a pivot to a leaner, scalable format.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche Focus & High-Value Curation**: Exclusively focused on "senior women+" in engineering—a highly specific, underserved demographic. Curated membership ensures high-quality peer connections.
- **End-to-End Career Support**: Integrates community building (Slack, events, retreats) with direct career services (introductions, coaching, negotiation help), removing friction for both members and hiring companies.
- **Trusted Intermediary**: Vets both member candidates and partner companies, acting as a trusted bridge that reduces noise for both sides in a traditionally high-friction market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Evolution to Lean Model**: The company has transitioned from a full-time team and frequent live events to an "evergreen monthly newsletter" and partner events, suggesting a focus on sustainable, scalable community management.
- **Deepening Company Partnerships**: Continues to work with "AI" and other cutting-edge startups, indicating a focus on high-growth tech sectors and top-tier venture-backed companies.
- **Content & Resource Hub**: The pivot to a newsletter suggests a shift toward building a content-driven, low-touch engagement model to maintain value for a growing membership base.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: A mission-driven community centered on supporting and empowering women in engineering. Members report a strong sense of belonging and professional support.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Supports a mix of remote, hybrid, and in-person roles depending on the specific partner company. The club itself is headquartered in San Francisco with a hybrid workspace policy.
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Members get access to exclusive in-person retreats, hackathons, 1x1 coaching, peer mentorship, and direct intros to top startups. The focus is on career acceleration, leadership development, and building a powerful professional network. The community is small and high-touch, offering a quality-over-quantity approach to networking.

## Sources
1. [thenewclub.fyi](https://www.thenewclub.fyi/)
2. [thenewclub.fyi/careers](https://www.thenewclub.fyi/careers)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/the-new-club)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenewclubnetwork)
5. [thenewclub.fyi (First Anniversary Blog)](https://www.thenewclub.fyi/blog/the-new-club-first-anniversary)

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