Founding Engineer - Civil

Aran Industries; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Job summary

Aran Industries seeks a hands-on civil engineer who can translate land, water, grading and infrastructure knowledge into automated software using AI tools. You will ship code and own projects end-to-end on live megaprojects, with a focus on generating site layouts, earthwork optimization, and integrated design workflows.

This remote role (US or Canada, excluding Quebec) offers a base salary of US$150k–$250k plus founding-team equity, and fully compensated health plans.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of grading, drainage, hydraulics, and site development.
• Proven hands-on engineering designs that were built or equivalent real-world problem-solving.
• Ability to ship code with AI tools today.
• Strong ownership and completion-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complete civil engineering packages: site layouts, grading, utilities, drainage and docs.
• Build a parametric civil design engine from constraints and topography.
• Automate earthwork, drainage and site-layout iterations.
• Integrate civil with structural/mechanical/electrical designs so changes propagate automatically.

Skills

Civil engineering

AI tooling

Software development

Ownership

Tools

Claude Code

AI tooling

Job description

You own civil engineering and site-design automation for data center and industrial megaprojects. From raw land to construction-ready site plans, you’ll deliver real civil engineering on live projects while building the engine that automates it for every future site.

We don’t need someone who knows how to navigate Civil 3D menus. We need someone who understands how land, water, grading, and infrastructure actually work — and can use AI to turn that knowledge into software.

What you’ll achieve

• Deliver complete civil engineering packages: site layouts, grading and earthwork, stormwater management, drainage, utilities, access roads, and construction documentation.
• Build a parametric civil design engine that takes site constraints, topography, geotechnical data, and project requirements and generates coordinated engineering deliverables.
• Automate earthwork optimization, drainage calculations, utility routing, and site-layout iterations.
• Connect civil engineering with structural, mechanical, and electrical design so a change in one discipline automatically propagates through the rest.
• Use AI coding agents (Claude Code and similar) to build these workflows. You will ship code.

You must

• Understand the physics and engineering fundamentals behind grading, drainage, hydraulics, and site development.
• Have delivered real engineering designs that have been built, or have equivalent hands‑on experience solving difficult physical engineering problems.
• Be comfortable challenging traditional engineering workflows and building better ones from scratch.
• Be able to ship code with AI tools today, even without a traditional software background.
• Have exceptional ownership. You see problems through to completion rather than handing them off.

You do not need to

• Hold a PE license (helpful, not required).
• Have prior data center experience.
• Have a CS degree or traditional software development experience.
• Have spent your career in a conventional civil engineering consultancy.

Full‑time | Remote (US or Canada, excluding Quebec) | US$150k–$250k or CA$215k–CA$355k base + founding-team equity

Fully compensated health plans with 100% dependent coverage.

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