Founding AI Lead
SewerAI
Date: 7 hours ago
City: Walnut Creek, CA
Salary:
$320,000
-
$350,000
per year
Contract type: Full time
About SewerAI Corporation
SewerAI is an AI and data management platform that is improving the speed, effectiveness and cost for cities and engineering firms to manage infrastructure. Our cutting edge AI lowers the total cost of ownership of cities’ infrastructure by reducing the dirty, dull and dangerous work that must be done to maintain infrastructure.
About The Role
Founding AI Lead – Building the Future of Sewer System Intelligence
Location: Hybrid – Walnut Creek, CA
We’re a venture-backed startup operating in one of the most critical, yet least glamorous, corners of
infrastructure. Our work touches public health, environmental safety, and the day-to-day functioning of
cities. We sit on an enormous trove of complex visual data—and the opportunity to turn that raw
information into intelligence that transforms decision-making.
We’re looking for an AI leader to define and execute our machine learning strategy from the ground up.
This is a blank canvas: you’ll set the research agenda, decide which technical bets to place, and build a
small, highly capable team. Your work will center on designing and delivering computer vision systems that
can interpret real-world visual data at scale, with the rigor to ensure they work outside the lab.
Your Mission
Why This Role
to hear from you.
Team & Culture
Join a team that values technical excellence, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous learning. We use modern development practices including comprehensive testing (Playwright E2E, Jest unit tests), code reviews, and automated deployment pipelines.
Salary/Benefits
$320,000 - $350,000 a year
The compensation range provided is in compliance with state specific laws. Factors that may be used to determine your actual rate of pay include your specific skills, years of experience and other factors.
Benefits Include
Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, 401K and much more
Unlimited PTO
Tools you need to get the job done
Competitive salary and potential equity based remuneration
Budget for courses, books, conferences – your development is important to us
Why Should You Apply?
SewerAI is a VC backed Series B startup with a large and rapidly growing client base looking for Product Engineer to join our scaling team. We are revolutionizing the antiquated industry by automating the labor intensive part of labeling cracks, roots and grease in pipeline inspection videos.
Come join a startup that is solving a real world problem with AI.
This role offers the opportunity to work with a sophisticated technology stack while solving real-world infrastructure challenges that matter to communities nationwide.
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.
SewerAI is an AI and data management platform that is improving the speed, effectiveness and cost for cities and engineering firms to manage infrastructure. Our cutting edge AI lowers the total cost of ownership of cities’ infrastructure by reducing the dirty, dull and dangerous work that must be done to maintain infrastructure.
About The Role
Founding AI Lead – Building the Future of Sewer System Intelligence
Location: Hybrid – Walnut Creek, CA
We’re a venture-backed startup operating in one of the most critical, yet least glamorous, corners of
infrastructure. Our work touches public health, environmental safety, and the day-to-day functioning of
cities. We sit on an enormous trove of complex visual data—and the opportunity to turn that raw
information into intelligence that transforms decision-making.
We’re looking for an AI leader to define and execute our machine learning strategy from the ground up.
This is a blank canvas: you’ll set the research agenda, decide which technical bets to place, and build a
small, highly capable team. Your work will center on designing and delivering computer vision systems that
can interpret real-world visual data at scale, with the rigor to ensure they work outside the lab.
Your Mission
- Lead & Inspire: Set the AI vision, communicate it clearly, and rally the team behind it.
- Curate Excellence: Build a gold-standard, meticulously labeled dataset as the foundation for
- Research with Taste: Focus on the right problems and the right approaches, balancing ambition
- Deliver at Scale: Build robust pipelines and deploy models that create measurable impact in the real
- Elevate Standards: Establish best practices for experimentation, data handling, and evaluation.
- Proven track record of leading AI/ML projects from concept to production.
- Strong background in computer vision, especially with large or complex datasets.
- Fluency in modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.) and deployment practices.
- Exceptional judgment in identifying high-impact research directions.
- Comfort working in an early-stage, resource-constrained environment where speed and quality
Why This Role
- Huge, underserved market with real-world consequences.
- True ownership over the AI direction and execution.
- A hybrid role in Walnut Creek, CA for close collaboration with leadership.
- The rare chance to apply cutting-edge computer vision in a space where no one else is close.
to hear from you.
Team & Culture
Join a team that values technical excellence, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous learning. We use modern development practices including comprehensive testing (Playwright E2E, Jest unit tests), code reviews, and automated deployment pipelines.
Salary/Benefits
$320,000 - $350,000 a year
The compensation range provided is in compliance with state specific laws. Factors that may be used to determine your actual rate of pay include your specific skills, years of experience and other factors.
Benefits Include
Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, 401K and much more
Unlimited PTO
Tools you need to get the job done
Competitive salary and potential equity based remuneration
Budget for courses, books, conferences – your development is important to us
Why Should You Apply?
SewerAI is a VC backed Series B startup with a large and rapidly growing client base looking for Product Engineer to join our scaling team. We are revolutionizing the antiquated industry by automating the labor intensive part of labeling cracks, roots and grease in pipeline inspection videos.
Come join a startup that is solving a real world problem with AI.
This role offers the opportunity to work with a sophisticated technology stack while solving real-world infrastructure challenges that matter to communities nationwide.
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.
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