Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineer, Sustainability AI

Watershed • San Francisco, CA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineers (FDSEs) are a new kind of role at Watershed: part technical builder, part trusted customer partner, part product iterator. You'll sit at the intersection of our product engineering teams and our customers, doing the hands-on, creative work of figuring out how Watershed's newest AI products deliver outcomes for sustainability teams in the real world.
This is a deliberately experimental role. We're building a small incubation team that embeds directly within our product and engineering teams and works closely alongside our customers on our new AI products. You'll co-develop AI skills, build prototypes, agents and workflows, and bring back fast, high-quality feedback to shape how our products evolve.
Concretely, you'll focus on one of Watershed's flagship AI products for the core measure, report, and act loop. You’ll work closely with our largest, most strategic customers to drive real scope 3 decarbonization by using Product Footprints.

Requirements

• You've built things: scripts, prototypes, data pipelines, or AI-assisted workflows. You're comfortable writing prototype quality code and aren't afraid to move fast.
• Experience with AI tooling, including building skills, building products with LLMs, or prototyping agent workflows
• Fluent with data tools (Excel, SQL, Python): wrangling messy data, building lightweight pipelines, turning raw inputs into usable outputs
• You understand corporate sustainability: scope 1/2/3 emissions, product footprints, supply chain decarbonization, or related domains
• You've worked directly with customers or technical stakeholders to build trust and solve complex problems
• You can tell a compelling story with data, from raw numbers to insight to recommendation
• Minimum of 6 years in a sustainability, technical or customer-facing role, ideally all 3
• You're energized by ambiguity and fast iteration. This is an incubation team and things will change.
• You connect the dots between technical possibilities and real-world impact
• Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with product and engineering teams and customers to drive adoption and success through beta, and GA stages
• Co-develop agent skills, prompts, and workflows that unlock new use cases and help customers bring more of their sustainability work into Watershed
• Build AI-assisted scripts and prototypes that solve novel sustainability problems and demonstrate their value for customers
• Work directly alongside our account teams and our customers: joining calls, embedding in their workflows, running experiments, and building trust as a partner
• Close the feedback loop between customers and product by identifying what's working, what isn't, and what to build next
• Partner with Customer Org leaders to package use cases, learnings, and playbooks so that what works in the field can scale across customer-facing teams

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees