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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at SewerAI Corporation'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at SewerAI Corporation

- **Company:** SewerAI Corporation
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $160k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sewer-ai/2e60c0f9-8d15-4d65-a520-9a8ac728e30f

## Job description

## About SewerAI Corporation

SewerAI is transforming underground infrastructure management through AI-powered inspection and risk analysis. Our platform helps contractors, engineering firms, and utilities unlock valuable insights from sewer inspection data—turning hours of manual video review into actionable intelligence in minutes. After doubling our customer base over the past year, we’re now entering an exciting phase of accelerated growth.

## About the Role

SewerAI is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Engineering team. This role sits at the intersection of customer discovery, project management, and deep technical execution — and is critical to ensuring customers successfully deploy, integrate, and operationalize our platform within their existing systems and workflows. You'll own complex implementations end-to-end: data migrations, ETL workflows, scripting, API integrations, SaaS-to-SaaS connectivity, and system configuration — often working with large, inconsistent, and imperfect datasets across multiple systems. Success here requires strong problem-solving, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, practical guidance for customers. This role directly impacts customer success, product adoption, and company growth.

## What You'll Do

Customer Discovery & Scope Management

- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer systems, data, workflows, and constraints
- Define implementation scope, timelines, and deliverables in collaboration with Customer Enablement, Sales, and Engineering
- Translate customer requirements into clear technical plans — including mappings, transformations, and integration design
- Identify risks early, especially around data quality, system compatibility, and workflow complexity
- Set clear success criteria and validation strategies; manage customer expectations throughout

Project Management & Implementation Delivery

- Own Professional Services projects from kickoff through final delivery
- Drive timelines, milestones, and cross-team coordination
- Maintain detailed documentation of configurations, mappings, and integrations
- Take full ownership of outcomes — data correctness, system behavior, and usability
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Data Migration, ETL, Scripting & Integrations

- Perform data imports, exports, and transformations between systems
- Design and execute ETL workflows for structured and semi-structured data
- Write scripts to automate data transformation, validation, and migration tasks
- Build and manage ingestion pipelines for files, databases, APIs, and media datasets
- Integrate systems using APIs, webhooks, and custom scripts
- Configure SaaS-to-SaaS integrations and automation workflows
- Work across tools including AWS (S3, Lambda, IAM), REST APIs, Temporal (or similar orchestration), Zapier/Celigo, and SQL/CSV/JSON/media datasets

Data Mapping, Validation & Reconciliation

- Define field-level mappings between legacy systems and platform data models
- Reconcile source and target schema differences; ensure referential integrity
- Handle real-world data issues: missing fields, inconsistent formats, duplicates, schema drift
- Validate data through sampling, QA checks, and full-scale verification
- Troubleshoot mismatches across files, metadata, APIs, and database records
- Execute staged migrations and validation before full production rollout

Customer-Facing Technical Consulting

- Engage directly with customer technical teams, managers, and stakeholders
- Explain technical topics in clear, practical terms
- Guide customers on best practices for data structure, workflows, and integrations
- Recommend implementation approaches based on real-world constraints
- Push back on infeasible solutions with clear reasoning and alternatives
- Serve as the trusted technical advisor through onboarding, expansion, and complex deployments

Internal Collaboration & Tooling

- Partner with Product, Engineering, Customer Enablement, and Support
- Build scripts, utilities, and templates to improve implementation efficiency
- Create repeatable patterns for migrations, integrations, and onboarding
- Contribute to internal documentation and playbooks
- Provide product feedback based on real customer use cases
- Help scale Professional Services delivery through better tooling and automation

## What We're Looking For

Required Experience

- 4+ years in Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, Implementation Engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role
- Proven track record managing end-to-end technical implementations or migrations
- Experience working directly with customers in technical environments
- Strong problem-solving ability in ambiguous, real-world situations
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences

Required Technical Skills

- Scripting experience — Python, JavaScript, Bash, or similar
- Strong SQL and relational database fundamentals
- ETL workflows and data migration experience
- API and system integration experience
- Comfort working with large, inconsistent, or unstructured datasets
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Ability to troubleshoot across multiple systems (DB, API, files, UI)
- Experience automating workflows or data processes
- Experience with AI code tools

## Nice to Have

- GIS, asset management, or infrastructure software experience
- Legacy system data migration experience
- Large-scale data ingestion or media dataset experience
- SaaS or high-growth startup environment experience
- Enterprise customer support experience

What Success Looks Like

- Complex implementations delivered on time and trusted by customers
- Data migrations that are accurate, validated, and production-ready
- Integrations that work reliably across systems
- Customers who feel confident in their technical decisions and workflows
- Internal teams who rely on you for the hardest implementation problems
- Professional Services processes that become more scalable over time

## Compensation & Benefits

Compensation: $160,000 – $180,000 Benefits include:

- Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, 401(k), and more
- Unlimited PTO
- Tools you need to get the job done
- Competitive salary and potential equity-based remuneration

## Why SewerAI

SewerAI is transforming how municipalities and contractors inspect, analyze, and manage sewer infrastructure across the country — combining AI, geospatial analysis, and modern web technology to solve a real-world problem that affects communities nationwide. Professional Services Engineers are at the heart of making that mission real for every customer we serve. SewerAI is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Why Join SewerAI?

Join the fastest-growing team in wastewater tech and help modernize critical infrastructure with AI. You’ll own high-visibility projects, influence how our brand meets the market, and see your work drive measurable impact for customers and communities. _______________________________________________________________________ SewerAI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination or harassment on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

## About SewerAI Corporation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SewerAI provides an AI-powered, unified platform for underground infrastructure inspection, defect coding, risk assessment, and capital planning.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Late-stage / Shareholder Liquidity round completed in 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Walnut Creek, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Matt Rosenthal (Co-CEO & Co-Founder) and Billy Gilmartin (Co-CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Infrastructure technology / Wastewater utility management
- **Target customers**: B2B – Municipal utilities, civil engineering firms, and sewer contractors (public sector and enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Equip utilities, engineers, and contractors with superhuman capabilities to solve supersized problems, collaboratively.”

## Products & Services
- **PIONEER®**: Unified cloud platform that connects CCTV footage, AI-coded inspections, risk-scored assets, rehab recommendations, and exportable capital plans.
- **AutoCode™**: AI-assisted defect coding tool that automatically assigns NASSCO observations from inspection footage, achieving 99%+ accuracy at 6× the speed of manual review.
- **Risk & Rehab™**: Capital planning tool that turns existing CCTV and MACP inspections into defensible, risk-based pipe and manhole rehab plans within minutes.
- **Smart Project Builder**: AI assistant trained on sewer engineering that produces council-ready reports (worst pipes, estimated costs, prioritization) from inspection data.
- **Sewer3D™**: Photogrammetry-based tool that generates 3D models, point clouds, and unfolded 2D views from manhole inspections, supporting NASSCO MACP Level 1/2 surveys.
- **QAI (Quality Assurance for Inspections)**: Automates QA review of inspection footage to cut hundreds of hours of manual review time.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $24.5M (per CB Insights) or $18.5M (per LinkedIn; conflicting reports). Annual revenue estimated at $2.3M (LinkedIn).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Emerald Technology Ventures, EPIC Ventures, Innovius Capital, Bentley Systems, JMI Equity, Builders VC, Suffolk Ventures, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 78 employees (up 41% YoY); trusted by 2,000+ cities nationwide; over 578 million feet of sewer infrastructure managed; 3.4 million+ inspections completed; active presence in Canada and Switzerland; monthly job postings up 75% and yearly postings up 600%.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first approach** with proven accuracy (99% defect detection) and speed (6× faster coding) – no new hardware required.
- **Built by industry veterans**: The team collectively holds over 400 years of hands-on experience in sewer operations and utility management.
- **Standards compliance**: All tools are NASSCO-compliant, enabling seamless adoption by municipalities and engineering firms.
- **End-to-end platform**: Connects raw inspection data to actionable capital plans, reducing reliance on multiple disjointed tools.
- **Seamless integrations**: Works with existing GIS, work order management systems, and custom APIs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding the PIONEER platform with manhole risk scoring (coming Summer 2026), international growth, and deepening AI capabilities for predictive infrastructure maintenance.
- **Growth direction**: Scaling from sewer pipe inspection to full manhole and broader underground asset management; targeting larger municipal contracts and enterprise utilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Every action directly improves public health and infrastructure safety.
- **Fast-growing startup**: 41% headcount growth in the past year; early-stage environment with significant ownership opportunities.
- **Culture**: Transparency, accountability, diversity of thought, and a “get stuff done” mentality. High autonomy and trust.
- **Work policy**: Remote and hybrid friendly with flexible hours.
- **Perks & benefits**:
  - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  - Unlimited PTO
  - Meaningful equity grants
  - Annual learning & development budget (courses, conferences)
  - Collaborative, high-caliber team with shared passion for impact
- **Open roles** (as of mid-2026): 7 positions including Senior Staff Software Engineer, ML Ops Engineer, Senior Product Manager (AI & Ops), VP of Customer Success, Sales Development Representative, and more.

## Sources
1. [SewerAI Official Website](https://www.sewerai.com/)
2. [SewerAI About / Company Page](https://www.sewerai.com/company)
3. [SewerAI Careers Page](https://sewerai.com/careers)
4. [CB Insights – SewerAI Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sewerai)
5. [SewerAI LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sewerai)

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