Staff software engineer, AI product
Watershed
Posted: February 25, 2026
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Quick Summary
We are a team of software engineers, AI product, developing a sustainable platform that helps companies measure ESG data and drive real decarbonization. The ideal candidate will be a team player who is passionate about product-building, collaboration, and working in a fast-paced startup environment. The role involves building a scalable and sustainable product with a focus on user experience and data science expertise.
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Job Description
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, 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
We're looking for a software engineer to join our sustainability AI reporting team. You will be a member of a cross functional team building world class AI tools for companies to manage and report on their progress in sustainability. You'll leverage LLMs, embeddings, and other AI technologies to deliver features to our customers, and help build the technical foundations for AI at Watershed.
We are looking for this hire to be based in our HQ in London 4 days per week.
In this role you will:
• Ship code to production on day one
• Prototype, develop and iterate on a new product area for Watershed, giving our customers powerful AI tools for information extraction and report generation
• Productionize and launch core technologies to power AI features on top of a wealth of operational sustainability data
• Keep up with developments and state-of-the-art in AI to determine what is relevant to Watershed
• Write performant, well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code across our technical stack
You might be a good fit if you have:
• Have 3+ years of software engineering industry experience, preferably in Node.js web development
• Have experience building customer facing products starting from user needs
• Are excited to join a startup and are ready to help evolve a growing engineering team
• Strong full-stack development skills
Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)
Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so.
What’s the interview process like?
It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience interview (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.
What if I need accommodations for my interview?
At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy-related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.