Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineer, Product Footprints

Sigma Earth; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sigma Earth is seeking a collaborative professional to advance Product Footprints from beta to GA, working with product, engineering, and customers. You will co-create agent capabilities, prompts, and workflows to unlock new sustainability use cases in the platform.

You’ll develop AI-assisted scripts and prototypes, join calls with account teams, and help integrate practices into customer workflows, building trust-based partnerships and scaling use cases across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building solutions such as scripts, prototypes, data pipelines, or AI-driven workflows.
• Familiarity with AI tools, including developing capabilities with large language models (LLMs), creating intelligent workflows, or prototyping agent-based systems.
• Proficiency in data tools like Excel, SQL, and Python, with the ability to clean, process, and transform unstructured data into actionable outputs.
• Solid understanding of corporate sustainability concepts, including Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, product footprints, and supply chain decarbonization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, as well as customers, to drive the adoption and success of Product Footprints from beta through GA.
• Co-create agent capabilities, prompts, and workflows that enable new use cases and help customers integrate more of their sustainability initiatives into the platform.
• Develop AI-assisted scripts and prototypes to address complex sustainability challenges and showcase their practical value to customers.
• Work hands-on with account teams and customers by joining calls, integrating into their workflows, running experiments, and building strong, trust-based partnerships.
• Continuously gather and relay customer feedback to the product team, identifying what’s effective, what needs improvement, and what should be built next.
• Collaborate with customer organization leaders to structure use cases, insights, and playbooks, ensuring successful approaches can scale across customer-facing teams.

Skills

Scripting

Prototyping

Data pipelines

AI workflows

LLMs

Python

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python

Job description

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, as well as customers, to drive the adoption and success of Product Footprints from beta through general availability (GA).
• Co-create agent capabilities, prompts, and workflows that enable new use cases and help customers integrate more of their sustainability initiatives into the platform.
• Develop AI-assisted scripts and prototypes to address complex sustainability challenges and showcase their practical value to customers.
• Work hands-on with account teams and customers by joining calls, integrating into their workflows, running experiments, and building strong, trust-based partnerships.
• Continuously gather and relay customer feedback to the product team, identifying what’s effective, what needs improvement, and what should be built next.
• Collaborate with customer organization leaders to structure use cases, insights, and playbooks, ensuring successful approaches can scale across customer-facing teams.

What We’re Looking For

You don’t need to match every requirement perfectly, but you should demonstrate strong capability or experience in most of the following areas:

Technical Skills

• Experience building solutions such as scripts, prototypes, data pipelines, or AI-driven workflows, with the ability to write quick, functional code and iterate rapidly.
• Familiarity with AI tools, including developing capabilities with large language models (LLMs), creating intelligent workflows, or prototyping agent-based systems.
• Proficiency in data tools like Excel, SQL, and Python, with the ability to clean, process, and transform unstructured data into actionable outputs.

Sustainability Knowledge

• Solid understanding of corporate sustainability concepts, including Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, product footprints, and supply chain decarbonization.
• Ability to effectively engage with both sustainability experts (such as LCA professionals) and technical stakeholders (such as data engineers).