Senior Civil Engineer

Unlimited Industries Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Unlimited Industries Inc. in San Francisco, CA is hiring a Senior Civil Engineer to bring deep site-civil expertise into our AI-driven design engine for large-scale projects like utility-scale power and data centers.

You’ll pair years of hands-on design experience with product development to codify how an excellent civil engineer thinks and acts into automated design deliverables. This role is in-person in San Francisco, requiring strong ownership, problem prioritization, and the ability to work

Qualifications

• Senior hands-on civil design experience on large-scale projects.
• PE licensure strongly preferred or demonstrated equivalent.
• Experience integrating civil design with automated software tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead site-civil design tasks (grading, earthwork, hydrology, permitting, geotechnical).
• Collaborate with product teams to embed civil thinking into an automated design engine.
• Set the standard for correctness of civil deliverables on capital projects.

Skills

Hands-on design

First principles thinking

Cross-disciplinary understanding

Problem prioritization

Education

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Civil engineering degree

Tools

AI design tools

Automation coding basics

Job description

Mission:

We are automating construction end to end to usher in a new era of abundance and beauty in the physical world in the coming decades. Over the past fifty years, the West’s ability to design and build large scale infrastructure has atrophied, and the entire industry has become less productive. With decaying infrastructure, power shortages, and an aging workforce, the only way through is to hyper-scale development with technology at a rate never before seen.

Our team believes that this is the most important work of our lives, and there’s no more significant place to spend our time than on solving these problems. We believe in the sacrifices that we must make to achieve our mission and build a world of abundance. We believe the future can be amazing, but only if we work gut-wrenchingly hard to make it so. Our work is bigger than all of us, and our obsession with manifesting is what drives us. Roughly 50% of our team are former founders, and we strive for technical excellence, but quell our egos to ensure that the best ideas always win.

We acknowledge the long and arduous path ahead to achieve our ambitions; that many of the most difficult challenges have yet to even be revealed to us; that the chance of failure is not only possible, but likely. Most of all, we believe that there is no other option: we will either revolutionize how humanity builds or die trying.

The role:

We're hiring a Senior Civil Engineer to bring deep, practicing site-civil expertise into our product. You'll pair years of hands-on design experience (grading and earthwork, hydrology, permitting, geotechnical, etc) with product development, turning how an excellent civil engineer thinks, checks, and makes judgment calls into capabilities within our automated design engine product, where we leverage AI to automate every step of the engineering design process to produce end construction design deliverables for large scale capital projects such as utility scale power and data centers. You'll set the bar for what \"correct\" means on every civil deliverable we ship.

This role is in-person in San Francisco, CA.

What we're looking for

• Owned significant civil engineering scopes within the design of large scale projects such as utility scale power stations, data centers, launch vehicle facilities, mass-scale manufacturing operations, mining operations, or similar.


• T-shaped technical excellence: broad understanding of how the civil scope connects to adjacent disciplines, and the implications of trade-offs across them, while also having deep expertise in 1-2 areas


• Evidence of strong first principles thinking: someone who has challenged \"this is how we've always done it\" syndrome


• Excitement to work in a fast-paced, high-performance environment, and embrace extreme ownership where we rethink many of the traditional \"best-practices\" of an industry that has been mostly frozen for 70+ years


• The ability to prioritize impact by ruthlessly finding the bottlenecks and solving the most important problems


• Hands-on engineers who can speak to the excruciating minutia and details of their work, and are excited to execute instead of manage/organize others' work


• Mission alignment and desire to build a future of abundance

Experience:

Senior. Significant hands-on civil design experience; PE strongly preferred.

Bonus:

• Experience with utility scale natural gas power generation plant and/or solar design


• Experience building your own calculation, analysis, or design-automation tools. A large part of this role is turning your engineering knowledge into scalable software; even if you've barely written software before, you'll leverage recent advancements in AI coding agents to assist you in building these tools


• Experience with AI coding agent tools (Codex, Claude Code, etc) for work or personal uses