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title: 'QA Survey Technician at Mach9'
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# QA Survey Technician at Mach9

- **Company:** Mach9
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-03-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mach9/98f6faad-81fd-43b2-90d6-49ad05f90bcc

## Job description

## THE ROLE:

At Mach9, QA Survey Technicians are the domain experts who ensure our platform works the way real surveyors and engineers expect it to. You'll work directly with product and engineering to validate feature extraction accuracy, stress-test new workflows against real-world datasets, and make sure what we ship reflects how the industry actually works.

This role is ideal for someone with hands-on surveying or CAD experience who wants to shape software the whole industry will use -- and can tell us clearly when it's wrong.

You'll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and marketing -- catching what engineers miss, providing structured feedback, and helping us demonstrate our capabilities to customers in plain, credible language.

WHERE YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

- QA new features against real-world LiDAR and mobile mapping datasets
- Identify extraction errors, edge cases, and workflow friction before they reach customers
- Provide structured, specific feedback to engineering and product teams
- Create screen recordings and narrated walkthroughs for tutorials, marketing, and demos
- Build repeatable QA checklists and testing workflows
- Act as the in-house authority on how surveyors and engineers actually work

## WHAT YOU BRING:

- Hands-on experience with surveying, drafting, or CAD (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, or similar)
- Expert knowledge of feature extraction, geometry, and infrastructure workflows
- Sharp eye for detail -- you notice when a curb line is off or a classification is wrong
- Comfort explaining technical workflows
- Able to work onsite in San Francisco

## ABOUT MACH9

Mach9 is transforming civil infrastructure design with AI-powered geospatial tools. Our platform https://www.geoweeknews.com/news/mach9-continues-to-accelerate-mapping-workflows-with-expansion-of-digital-surveyor-capabilities accelerates the creation of engineering deliverables from raw data, cutting manual drafting time by 96×. Trusted by global leaders in engineering and construction, we’re backed by https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/mach9-is-equipping-infrastructure-operators-with-better-information/Y Combinator, Quiet Capital, and top founders and executives from Cruise, Autodesk, Adobe, and DoorDash.

We believe the needs of a startup benefit from an in-person culture. The team works out of our office in SoMa, with the flexibility to work from home when needed.

## About Mach9

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mach9 builds AI-native CAD software that automatically transforms LiDAR point clouds into engineering-grade 3D maps, accelerating infrastructure design and surveying workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Alexander Baikovitz (CEO), Zachary Sussman (CTO), Haowen Shi, Michael M. – four researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Civil infrastructure, surveying & geospatial services, transportation, telecom, utilities, architecture/engineering/construction (AEC).
- **Target customers**: B2B. Enterprise clients include top engineering firms (Langan, Olsson, Woolpert, HDR, Michael Baker International), major state Departments of Transportation (DOTs), and utility companies.
- **Mission/purpose**: "Accelerate how teams model and understand the world" – providing the fastest, most accurate automated feature-extraction technology for infrastructure projects.

## Products & Services
- **Digital Surveyor (DS2)**: AI-native, web-based CAD platform for automated feature extraction from LiDAR point clouds. Offers AI-assisted extraction (curbs, pavement edges, guardrails, utility poles), manual tools, and direct export to AutoCAD, MicroStation, and ESRI. Data-agnostic ingest pipeline supports scanners from RIEGL, Trimble, Leica, NavVis. Type: SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **USD $14,425,000** (as of early 2026).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2021 batch), Quiet Capital (led $12M Seed round, Nov 2024), Tiger Global Management (led $2.3M Seed round, Dec 2021), and top executives from Cruise, Autodesk, Adobe, and DoorDash as advisors/investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 30 employees (LinkedIn, Apr 2026) with +32.1% yearly growth; monthly job posting growth +66.7% year-over-year; trusted by leading engineering firms and state DOTs; launched Digital Surveyor 2 in March 2026; featured in Geo Week News and YC blog.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native CAD workflow**: Unlike traditional manual drafting, DS2's AI "drafts with you" – learning from user edits to improve suggestions in real time, cutting manual drafting time by up to 96×.
- **Field-to-finish in one environment**: No need to switch between preprocessing, extraction, and CAD tools – all done in a single web-based platform.
- **Strong research roots**: Built on decades of research from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, giving a deep technical moat in computer vision and geospatial ML.
- **Designed for surveyors**: Intuitive UI that lets domain experts (not just CAD specialists) be productive on day one.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale GTM and engineering**: Active hiring across sales (Account Executive, Founding Marketer), engineering (ML Infrastructure Engineer, Perception Software Engineer, Head of Product Engineering), and operations (Solutions Consultant, QA Survey Technician).
- **Expand into new verticals**: Targeting electric/telecom utilities, data centers, and broader infrastructure beyond transportation.
- **Product evolution**: Continuously improving AI accuracy and automation, with a focus on trust and user control (as highlighted in the DS2 launch).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, customer-obsessed, engineering-first environment. Values: "work fast, iterate with customer feedback, never compromise on excellence."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: HQ in San Francisco; some roles are "Remote / Remote (US)" per YC job listings. Likely hybrid with in-office presence for SF-based roles.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Health, vision, dental insurance; paid parental leave; flexible time off; equity package for all full-time employees; company 401(k); relocation assistance; catered lunches & paid dinner; company & team events; dog-friendly office.
- **Engineering culture**: Deep technical challenges at the intersection of AI, geospatial, computer graphics, and infrastructure. Opportunity to work on hard problems that "unlock billions in value for customers."

## Sources
1. [mach9.ai/careers](https://mach9.ai/careers)
2. [mach9.ai](https://www.mach9.ai/)
3. [mach9.ai/about](https://www.mach9.ai/about)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/mach9](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mach9)
5. [linkedin.com/company/mach9geo](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mach9geo)

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