Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineer, Sustainability AI
Company: Watershed Technology
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $174,000 - $227,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-03
About this role
Location
San Francisco, New York City
(Multiple locations)
Type
Full-Time
Department
Engineering
Compensation
$174,000 - $227,000
## About Watershed
Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.
We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!
## The role
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.
## What You'll Do
- Embed directly with product and engineering teams and customers to drive adoption and success through beta, and GA stages
- Co-develop agen...