SewerAI · Los Angeles
OtherProduct & DesignHybridFullTime
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.
Role Summary
SewerAI is reimagining how civil engineering services are delivered by engineers and engineering firms to cities, utilities, and public agencies. We are seeking a Wastewater Civil Engineer who has delivered municipal wastewater engineering services and wants to help build the tools, workflows, and technical standards that make that work faster, more consistent, and more defensible.
This role will help translate real civil engineering practice into product capabilities for condition assessment, risk prioritization, rehabilitation recommendations, inspection planning, cleaning planning, capital planning, and project execution. The ideal candidate has worked at a civil engineering firm or consulting practice delivering sewer collection system projects to cities and understands both the technical work and the client-service expectations behind it.
You should be comfortable moving between engineering judgment, municipal client needs, field realities, software workflows, data quality, and product requirements. This is not a traditional design- only role; it is a role for an engineer who can help SewerAI encode how high-quality wastewater engineering services should be delivered at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as a subject matter expert on how civil engineering firms deliver wastewater collection system services to cities, utilities, and public agencies.
Translate consulting engineering workflows into clear product requirements, user stories, review criteria, decision logic, templates, and quality standards.
Partner with product, engineering, customer success, and implementation teams to build tools that support municipal sewer planning, inspection review, rehabilitation recommendations, cleaning plans, and capital project development.
Represent the practical needs of consulting engineers and municipal clients, including scope definition, deliverable quality, defensible recommendations, project budgets, schedules, client communication, and public-agency procurement constraints.
Evaluate wastewater collection system assets including gravity mains, force mains, manholes, life stations, laterals, and related appurtenances using CCTV, manhole inspections, field investigations, GIS, CMMS/EAMS records, hydraulic data, and maintenance history.
Develop and maintain risk-based prioritization frameworks using condition, consequence of failure, criticality, SSO history, capacity constraints, defect severity, maintenance frequency, service impact, lifecycle cost, and constructibility.
Review inspection videos, defect codes, PACP/MACP/LACP data, work orders, cleaning records, and field notes to identify actionable repair, rehabilitation, replacement, and maintenance needs.
Recommend appropriate rehabilitation and renewal methods such as CIPP, pipe bursting, slip lining, point repairs, open-cut replacement, manhole rehabilitation, root control, grouting, bypass planning, and targeted reinspection.
Build inspection plans and schedules for CCTV, manhole inspections, smoke testing, dye testing, flow monitoring, and other condition-assessment activities based on risk, age, material, service history, and regulatory or operational needs.
Build cleaning plans and preventive maintenance programs that prioritize high-risk assets, recurring blockage areas, grease/root/debris issues, siphons, critical crossings, and known SSO risk locations.
Convert condition and risk findings into scopes of work, project definitions, budget estimates, schedules, bid packages, technical memoranda, engineering reports, CIP inputs, and management recommendations.
Coordinate field investigations, inspection quality control, cleaning verification, data reconciliation, and integration of inspection results into GIS and asset-management systems.
Manage wastewater rehabilitation and maintenance projects from planning through design, procurement, construction, inspection, closeout, documentation, and performance tracking.
Review engineering plans, specifications, submittals, reports, CCTV deliverables, inspection logs, pay applications, change orders, and contractor work for technical quality and compliance.
Coordinate with operations and maintenance teams to align engineering recommendations with crew capacity, equipment availability, safety requirements, access constraints, emergency response needs, and customer impacts.
Support regulatory compliance, sanitary sewer overflow documentation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action planning, and reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
Prepare dashboards, maps, spreadsheets, cost models, decision matrices, and presentations that explain priorities and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Develop or improve asset-management workflows, data standards, inspection acceptance criteria, rehabilitation decision trees, and performance metrics.
Review product outputs for engineering soundness, practical usability, and alignment with what cities expect from professional engineering deliverables.
Support customer discovery, demos, pilots, and implementation with civil engineering credibility and practical knowledge of municipal wastewater programs.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a closely related engineering field.
5 or more years of experience in wastewater collection systems, sewer rehabilitation, municipal utility engineering, public works, asset management, or related civil infrastructure work.
Experience working at a civil engineering firm, consulting engineering practice, or similar professional-services environment delivering projects for cities, utilities, districts, or public agencies.
Experience preparing or contributing to client-facing engineering deliverables such as technical memoranda, condition assessment reports, rehabilitation recommendations, CIP plans, inspection plans, cleaning plans, sewer system evaluation studies, bid documents, or council/board-ready recommendations.
Experience reviewing CCTV inspection data, sewer defect observations, manhole inspection data, cleaning records, condition assessments, or field investigation results
Working knowledge of wastewater collection system operations, sewer cleaning practices, inspection methods, inflow and infiltration investigations, sanitary sewer overflow causes, and rehabilitation methods.
Ability to develop risk-based priorities and practical recommendations from imperfect asset, inspection, GIS, hydraulic, and maintenance data.
Experience preparing engineering reports, technical memoranda, cost estimates, project scopes, schedules, bid documents, or capital planning recommendations.
Strong coordination skills with field crews, operations staff, maintenance supervisors, contractors, consultants, agencies, and utility customers.
Ability to work cross-functionally with software product managers, engineers, designers, data teams, and customer-facing teams.
Strong judgment about what makes an engineering recommendation technically defensible, practical for a city to act on, and clear enough to communicate.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and common engineering, mapping, reporting, or project-management tools.
Valid driver's license and ability to visit field sites, treatment or collection-system facilities, construction sites, and active utility work zones as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Professional Engineer license or ability to obtain licensure by comity; EIT may be acceptable depending on role level.
NASSCO PACP, MACP, or LACP certification.
Direct experience managing municipal consulting projects, scopes, budgets, schedules, subconsultants, client meetings, and public-agency deliverables.
Experience with GIS and asset/work management systems such as ArcGIS, Cityworks, Lucity, Cartegraph, Maximo, InfoAsset, or similar tools.
Experience with hydraulic modeling, flow monitoring, I/I studies, sewer system evaluation studies, CMOM programs, SSMP programs, or consent-order/corrective-action programs.
Experience selecting or designing trenchless rehabilitation methods including CIPP, pipe bursting, slip lining, grouting, point repair, and manhole rehabilitation.
Experience managing consultants, contractors, inspection vendors, cleaning crews, CCTV contractors, or construction management teams.
Experience developing capital improvement plans, lifecycle cost analyses, asset risk models, business cases, or preventive maintenance programs.
Experience contributing to software tools, data products, automation, AI-enabled workflows, internal engineering standards, or digital transformation efforts in civil infrastructure.
Success Measures
SewerAI product workflows reflect how high-quality civil engineering services are actually delivered to cities.
Product outputs are technically credible, auditable, and useful to both consulting engineers and municipal decision-makers.
Inspection and cleaning plans are risk-based, field-practical, and aligned with operational capacity.
Rehabilitation recommendations are technically defensible, cost-aware, and tied to observed defects, failure consequences, and lifecycle value.
Priority lists are transparent enough for engineering, operations, finance, and leadership to understand and defend.
Projects move from inspection findings to scoped work, funding decisions, procurement, construction, and closeout without losing technical context.
Asset data improves over time through consistent coding, quality review, GIS/CMMS updates, and feedback from completed work.
SSO risk, recurring maintenance burden, emergency repairs, and unplanned service disruptions are reduced through targeted planning and execution.
Product, engineering, and customer teams gain reusable engineering standards, examples, templates, and review logic from this role's expertise.
Compensation & Benefits
Base Salary: $165,000 - $205,000
Equity opportunities available
Benefits include:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, 401(k), and more
Unlimited PTO
Tools and resources to support success
Competitive compensation with high-growth potential
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