Senior Civil Infrastructure Engineer
ConfidentialDepartment: Strategic Engineering | Reports to: James Trebesch, Head of Strategic Engineering | Employment: Full-Time Office Location: Palo Alto, California Proposed Annual Base Salary: $160,000–$215,000 Plus significant equity and comprehensive benefits. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Civil Infrastructure Engineer to lead the development and optimization of standardized civil and site infrastructure solutions for AI data centers. The role owns civil standards, repeatable campus and site layouts, and site-feasibility logic while directing outside civil engineering firms responsible for detailed design and permitting support. A core responsibility is translating practical land-development expertise into software-driven feasibility screening, configurable site layouts, preliminary quantity estimates, and procurement workflows. This is a technical leadership and infrastructure product development role rather than a traditional design-production position. Key Responsibilities Site Infrastructure Architecture & Standardization Own civil and site infrastructure standards, reference layouts, and reusable development criteria. Develop campus configurations for different facility capacities, power systems, cooling technologies, and expansion scenarios. Create repeatable approaches to grading, stormwater, roads, underground utilities, equipment yards, and utility corridors. Optimize site layouts for land utilization, earthwork, installation complexity, schedule, and construction cost. Define standard interfaces for substations, generation equipment, cooling infrastructure, and utility connections. Separate truly reusable design elements from local requirements involving soils, topography, environmental conditions, permits, and utility access. Build site-feasibility and development-readiness criteria to inform early customer decisions. Engineering Software & Procurement Development Translate site-development constraints into structured configuration inputs, design rules, and exception logic. Partner with software teams on preliminary feasibility evaluation, campus layout generation, takeoffs, bill-of-material generation, and design package creation. Define standardized civil material specifications, site infrastructure quantities, and contractor procurement requirements. Incorporate site costs, utilities, approvals, and construction schedules into selection and optimization decisions. Identify conditions that require external site-specific engineering and professional review. Use real project feedback to improve software rules and the repeatability of standard site layouts. External Engineering & Contractor Leadership Direct external civil engineers responsible for detailed grading, drainage, utility drawings, calculations, and permitting support. Develop external scopes of work, technical criteria, submittal expectations, and review processes. Challenge consultant designs to reduce earthwork, utility complexity, cost, and schedule risk. Coordinate with developers, utilities, permitting authorities, equipment vendors, and construction contractors. Standardize civil infrastructure packages and contractor work scopes where practical. Guide field change decisions while external licensed engineers retain applicable engineer-of-record responsibilities. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Integrate civil site criteria with electrical, mechanical, compute, and networking reference architectures. Support customer site screening, early feasibility, project development, and infrastructure readiness decisions. Feed delivery and constructability lessons into the next generation of Remanie reference designs. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a closely related field. Significant experience in hyperscale data centers, major industrial facilities, or comparable large-scale site development. Strong understanding of grading, drainage, land development, underground utilities, permitting, and site planning. D…