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Treeswift

Provides tree-level forest inventories via drones

Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-Time
$150k - $190k/yr
Mid
New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
Solution EngineeringImplementation & Technical Account Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 4 years of professional experience.
  • Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and willingness to work autonomously in an early-stage environment.
  • Experience in a highly technical environment, such as software development, robotics, engineering, or finance.
  • Comfort coding in Python, contributing to web application development, and learning new technical concepts quickly.
Responsibilities
  • Embed with customers to understand their challenges, how the technology can support them, and where gaps exist; meet customers at their locations to observe their field and office workflows in person.
  • Deploy the product at customer sites by gathering inputs needed to configure the platform and generating user logins; support or lead user training and serve as the first point of contact for support and product feedback.
  • Support integrations with customer data systems by mapping company data to target system schemas, providing one-off data dumps, and helping establish operational pipelines such as API integrations.
  • Extend the platform to address customer needs, including writing Python models for new business logic, contributing features to the web application, and working on larger product initiatives; deliver MVPs or fully developed features for review and deployment to customers.
  • Complete analyses that help customers understand and trust the data, including one-off reports and comparisons between company data and customer data.
Desired Qualifications
  • More extensive technical experience with data pipelines, embedded systems, or machine learning.
  • Prior experience at a SaaS software company.
  • Prior experience working with utilities, the energy sector, or other sectors with substantial field work or industrial components.

About the company

Treeswift collects and sells precise forest data. It uses sensor suites attached to drones and backpacks to gather tree-level measurements (diameter, height, quality, merchantable products, species, stem defects) and geospatial information across large areas, focusing on carbon and timber inventories for forest management. The data is processed with advanced algorithms to create detailed inventories for each tree. This product is sold as an operational database of carbon and timber metrics that foresters can use to make decisions. Unlike broader, less granular methods, Treeswift delivers verifiable, per-tree data collected in real time over large landscapes, with the involvement of foresters in its development. The company’s goal is to provide accurate, scalable, and reliable forest inventories that improve decision-making in forest management and carbon/timber accounting.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$15.6M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • Treeswift signed a 7,487-square-foot Midtown lease in July 2026, signaling expansion.
  • Treeswift's website now targets electric-grid labor, broadening sales beyond forestry.
  • Treeswift works with three of the five largest U.S. utilities, according to Caplight.

What critics are saying

  • Treeswift last raised capital in September 2023, leaving a long funding gap.
  • Utilities can replace pilots quickly if Treeswift misses reliability, safety, or cost targets.
  • A drone crash, FAA issue, or field injury kills deployments and damages customer trust.

What makes Treeswift unique

  • Treeswift's under-canopy drones capture tree-level LiDAR and imagery beyond satellite workflows.
  • Treeswift pairs backpack and vehicle sensors with AI analytics for 360° field context.
  • Treeswift serves utilities and forestry, including PG&E and two top-five U.S. utilities.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Stock Options
  • Parental Leave
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

6%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-7%
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Oct 10th, 2023
SEC FORM D

The Securities and Exchange Commission has not necessarily reviewed the information in this filing and has not determined if it is accurate and complete.The reader should not assume that the information is accurate and complete.

National Law Review
Apr 7th, 2022
Treeswift launches SwiftCruise

A Philadelphia-based company, Treeswift, has created a drone called SwiftCruise, that can maneuver below the forest canopy and gather plentiful data from heavily-forested areas.

ExploreBit
Mar 29th, 2022
Treeswift received financing of $4.8M in Seed funding on Mar 28th 22'.

Treeswift, a Philadelphia, PA-based natural resource management company, raised $4.8M in funding.

Business Wire
Mar 28th, 2022
Treeswift Raises $4.8 Million To Build Next Generation Of Forest Monitoring System

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Treeswift today announced Seed funding in the amount of $4.8 million, led by Pathbreaker Ventures. Other investors include Crosslink Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Boom Capital Ventures, Yes VC, Susa Ventures, Draft Ventures, Anorak Ventures, S7 Ventures, Awesome People Ventures, Switch Ventures, Convective Capital, and Dorm Room Fund. The company has now raised $6.4 million to date in order to provide forest stakeholders with easily-access