Civil Professional Engineer, Data Center Site Design

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Evaluate site models created from survey, geotechnical, and wetland documentation

• Verify surveyed landscapes, floodplain boundaries, setbacks, easements, and power-line clearances

• Analyze customer reference-design test configurations, including building pads, substations, retention ponds, roadways, and utility corridors

• Review mass grading and earthwork in accordance with customer guidelines

• Compare platform results against finalized engineering packages and clarify discrepancies

• Participate in customer evaluations and determine if outputs serve as a valid foundation for design

• Counsel the product team on the information necessary for a signing engineer

• Authenticate site and civil deliverables through a TBPELS-registered firm

• Oversee, review, and certify site plans, grading and drainage systems, utility layouts, and civil basis-of-design documents

• Lead the engineering components of proposals and bids

• Engage licensed Texas surveyors, geotechnical engineers, and wetland specialists

• Develop engineering quality assurance processes for AI-assisted design

• Ensure that work is protected by professional liability insurance

• Collaborate with a power and utility advisor and evaluate project civil scopes

• Supervise a Civil 3D drafter

• Work alongside product and engineering teams in Latin America

⛳️ Requirements

• Current Professional Engineer license in Texas, Civil, in good standing without any disciplinary record

• Owner, principal, or partner of a firm registered with TBPELS, or capable of acting as Engineer of Record for one

• Over 8 years of experience in site and civil engineering

• Minimum of 3 years working on large industrial, data center, or mission-critical campuses

• Proven experience sealing site plans, grading and drainage, and utility plans for projects exceeding 50 acres

• Practical knowledge of master planning and test fits, earthwork balancing, stormwater management, FEMA floodplain, and wetland limitations

• Proficient in Civil 3D or comparable software

• Capable of interpreting survey data (LandXML, CAD) and geotechnical reports

• Willing to thoroughly review software-generated designs and clearly articulate what you would endorse and what you would not

• No current engagement with a data center operator or engineering firms that submit bids for their projects, or ability to terminate such engagements

• Texas residency required; remote work within Texas with site visit obligations

🏝️ Benefits

• Hourly contract for Phase 1, approximately 10 hours per week

• Remote work environment

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

• Professional liability coverage arranged through the firm for Engineer of Record responsibilities

• Access to platform, customer relations, drafter, and product team support