Founding Member of Technical Staff - Civil Engineer

Aran Industries; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Equity

Health coverage

Job summary

Aran Industries is seeking a civil engineering professional to own land, water, grading, and infrastructure knowledge while building an AI-powered design engine for data center and industrial megaprojects.

You will deliver complete civil packages and automate design workflows, connecting disciplines so changes propagate automatically, and ship code using Claude Code and similar AI tools.

Qualifications

• Understand physics and engineering fundamentals behind grading and site development.
• Deliver real designs or solve tough physical engineering problems.
• Able to ship code with AI tools today, without a traditional software background.
• Demonstrate ownership and drive projects through to completion.

Responsibilities

• Deliver civil engineering packages: site layouts, earthwork, drainage, utilities, roads, and docs.
• Build a parametric design engine using site constraints and data to generate deliverables.
• Automate earthwork optimization, drainage calculations, and site-layout iterations.
• Integrate civil with structural, mechanical, and electrical to propagate changes.
• Use AI agents to build workflows and ship code.

Skills

Civil engineering

Grading & drainage

AI tool usage

Code shipping

Ownership & delivery

Tools

Claude Code

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

Full-time | Remote (US or Canada, excluding Quebec) | US$150k-$250k or CA$215k-CA$355k base + founding-team equityFully compensated health plans with 100% dependent coverage.We hire across the experience spectrum. Proof that you build beats years on a resume.