Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineer, Sustainability AI
About Watershed Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr.
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Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineer, Sustainability AI at Watershed in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Watershed Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr.
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- 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
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- 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
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