West Yost
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Truth index
C 59/100
Ghost roles
68%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
West Yost scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 19 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 68% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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West Yost Newsletter - Summer 2026
Across Northern California's Central Valley and Nevada, communities are navigating evolving water needs, regulatory requirements, climate conditions, aging infrastructure, and continued growth. Building resilience means preparing for these changing condit
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Resilience Is Now: A Conversation with Andy Bochman and Sunny Wescott Following ACWA's Spring Conference
Featuring Andy Bochman, Resilience Strategic Lead at West Yost, and Sunny Wescott, Chief Meteorologist at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This article contains and answers the following: Why resilience is now a critical asset for California wate
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AI Guardrails #6 - Getting Your Data House in Order: The Principal Agentic Prerequisite
Andy Bochman Resilience Strategic Lead West Yost One thing we've heard from organizations that have attempted to deploy agentic AI in their organizations, especially those that have experienced initial setbacks, is that the preparation of their data asset
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AI Guardrails #5 - Boards in the Loop
Andy Bochman Resilience Strategic Lead West Yost As agentic AI moves into operations, here's how utility Boards of Directors (and City Councils exercising utility oversight responsibilities) should come to understand their governance obligations. The prev
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AI Guardrails #4 - Are AI Agents Right for Water Utilities?
Andy Bochman Resilience Strategic Lead West Yost TL;DROn the heels of major media coverage of Anthropic's too-dangerous-to-widely-release Claude Mythos version, the SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit explored significant advances in Agentic AI offense and defen
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AI Guardrails #3 - Engineering the Guardrails
Andy Bochman Resilience Strategic Lead West Yost TL;DR Water utilities must build their own AI safety governance now, before deployment, because neither the federal government nor the AI industry will do it for them. This paper provides a practical framew
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AI Guardrails #2 - The Economics Won't Wait
Andy Bochman Resilience Strategic Lead West Yost TL;DR Water utilities face a convergence of crises - workforce retirement, aging infrastructure, capital backlogs measured in trillions, and intensifying climate extremes- that make GenAI adoption feel less
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AI Guardrails #1 - Why This Time Is Different
Andy Bochman Resilience Strategic Lead West Yost TL;DR Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Agentic AI introduce risks that are categorically different from traditional cybersecurity threats - systems that can cause harm while working exactly as
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From Washington to the Water Sector: Advancing Resilience at West Yost
By Andrew Ohrt, Principal Technical Specialist This article contains and answers the following: Andrew Ohrt's reflections from Washington, D.C., on resilience Why resilience is becoming a national priority for water utilities West Yost's integrated approa
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West Yost's Brett Storey Provides Testimony Before Congress on Forest Management and Watershed Resilience
This article contains and answers the following: Brett Storey's congressional testimony in support of H.R. 184 The connection between forest health, wildfire resilience, water supply, and infrastructure West Yost's role in helping clients communicate comp
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at West Yost over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
71/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
Cloud & platforms
Power BI
AI & ML
ChatGPT
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Full West Yost tech stack
8 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$160k
Typical range
$85k – $240k
Open positions
17
17
Jobs
Junior
5.9%
Middle
23.5%
Senior
29.4%
Staff
11.8%
Principal
29.4%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $149k | $149k |
| Middle | 4 | $148k | $106k – $199k |
| Senior | 5 | $145k | $85k – $160k |
| Staff | 2 | $210k | $181k – $240k |
| Principal | 5 | $190k | $181k – $194k |
Highest paying role
OTCR Business Sector Leader (Operations Technology, Cybersecurity, & Resilience) - Municipal Water
$240k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at West Yost
By role, level and city, against the market · 17 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
44/100
Stable
Open positions
19
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
56 days
faster than 24% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Early Careers
38% ▲
Administrative
13% ▼
Sales
13% ▼
Operations
13% ▼
Science & Research
13% ▲
Industrial Engineering
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Concord
Oct 2026
New location: Pleasanton
Oct 2026
New location: Santa Rosa
Oct 2026
Added Power BI to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Project to stack
Oct 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack
Oct 2026
Added QGIS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
10
Hiring now
10
Countries
1
Busiest office
Sacramento
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Sacramento
United States
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6 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 50-200 est. staff $181k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Security, Early Careers
Irvine
United States
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5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff $174k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Security, Science & Research
San Diego
United States
Plant / site
4 open roles 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Security
Davis
United States
Plant / site
4 open roles 10-50 est. staff $159k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, HR
Reno
United States
Plant / site
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff $159k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations
Lake Oswego
United States
Plant / site
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $167k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Sales
Pleasanton
United States
Plant / site
3 open roles 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Security
Concord
United States
Plant / site
3 open roles 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Security
Phoenix
United States
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $240k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Early Careers
Santa Rosa
United States
2 open roles 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $216k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Industrial Engineering
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