Drimva

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Senior Civil Engineer

San Francisco · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026

Experience
Senior level; significant hands-on civil design experience. No specific number of years stated.

About the job

Bring hands-on site-civil engineering expertise into an AI-powered design product, defining and validating civil deliverables for large-scale capital projects.

What you'll do

  • Apply civil design judgment across grading and earthwork, hydrology, permitting, and geotechnical work.
  • Translate engineering practices and judgment into capabilities for an automated design engine.
  • Set standards for correctness in civil design deliverables.

What they ask for

  • Owned significant civil engineering scopes on large-scale projects.
  • Broad understanding of how civil work connects to adjacent disciplines, with deep expertise in 1–2 areas.
  • Strong first-principles thinking and ability to challenge conventional practices.
  • Hands-on civil design experience and willingness to execute technical work.

Nice to have

  • Professional Engineer (PE) license.
  • Experience with utility-scale natural gas power generation plants or solar design; building engineering automation tools; or using AI coding agents.

Tools

AI, Codex, Claude Code

AI focus

Help develop an AI-powered automated design engine that produces construction design deliverables, including by turning engineering knowledge into scalable software and using AI coding agents to build tools.

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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)