Why AquaForge
Early enough to matter. Specific enough to be interesting.
We are building at the intersection of process engineering, regulatory intelligence, and generative AI in a market where no equivalent tool exists. If you want to work on something with direct, measurable impact on global water infrastructure, this is the right moment to join.
Meaningful equity
Stock options that reflect early-employee risk and upside. You will have a real stake in what you help build.
Competitive salary
Market-rate compensation from day one. Early stage does not mean underpaid.
4 weeks vacation
Four weeks from year one. Sustainable pace is not a perk, it is a requirement for the quality of work we do.
Flexible hours, hybrid work
Based in Sherbrooke or Montreal, with flexibility on where and when you work. We care about output, not attendance.
Hard problems, not busy work
Multilingual regulatory extraction. AI-powered treatment chain optimization. Patent-pending simulation methodology. The technical challenges here are real and unsolved.
Lightweight process
No approval chains, no politics. You will talk directly to the founders and see the impact of your decisions within days, not quarters.
How we work
Born from experience. Driven by impact.
AquaForge is built on five principles that reflect how we think about engineering, about software, and about the people who depend on both. They shape how we make decisions every day.
T Traceability
Every output we produce, whether code, AI recommendation, or regulatory analysis, must be explainable and auditable. We never ask engineers or clients to trust a black box. Decisions get documented, reasoning gets shared, and outcomes get measured.
R Rigor
We work in a safety-critical field. A missed regulation can cost a municipality millions and delay clean water access for years. We take that seriously in everything we build and in every standard we hold each other to.
A Accessibility
Our mission is to democratize expertise. That means building tools that give a junior engineer in a smaller firm the same capability as a senior expert at a major one. Internally, it means no information silos, no gatekeeping, no expertise hoarding.
C Confidence
We state what we know and we are honest about what we do not. We do not oversell, we do not hedge when we have the data, and we do not pretend certainty we have not earned. This applies to the product and to every conversation in the team.
E Excellence
Speed without compromise is the platform’s promise to customers. It is also how we work. We move fast because we have done the thinking upfront, not because we are cutting corners. Good enough is not a milestone, it is the floor.
Open positions
Current openings
We hire for depth, not headcount. If you do not see a role that fits but believe you can contribute something we have not yet defined, write to us at careers@aquaforge.ai.
Do not see the right role?
We are building a small team where every person has direct impact. If you have deep expertise in water treatment engineering, AI, or SaaS product, write to us before the right role appears.
