Principal Civil Engineer- Data Center Engineering

Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy , a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data center and power infrastructure to strengthen America's future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data center campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company's growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data center infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data center infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition!

Basic Function:

SB Energy is seeking a Principal Civil Engineer to join the Data Center team.

In this role, you will serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for the planning, design development, technical review, and standardization of civil engineering infrastructure for large-scale, mission-critical data center campuses. You will apply deep civil engineering expertise to establish and continuously improve standards, specifications, design criteria, and delivery frameworks that support scalable, cost-effective, and efficient development across a growing portfolio of projects.

You will work closely with internal project teams, engineering consultants, contractors, utilities, and permitting authorities, providing hands-on technical expertise, resolving complex engineering challenges, and driving consistency and engineering excellence across projects.
Responsibilities:

- Develop, implement, and continuously improve civil engineering standards, design criteria, specifications, and best practices across data center projects

- Serve as a senior technical resource for site development, grading, drainage, utility infrastructure, stormwater management, erosion control, access roads, and site logistics planning

- Evaluate new technologies, design approaches, construction methodologies, and vendor solutions to improve project performance, reduce costs, and enhance scalability

- Perform detailed technical review of civil engineering deliverables and provide recommendations to ensure alignment with company standards, Owner's Project Requirements (OPR), and project objectives

- Partner with regional design and execution teams to capture lessons learned and incorporate continuous improvements into future developments

- Collaborate with our Development team on site due diligence activities, including assessment of land constraints, utility availability, permitting requirements, environmental considerations, and development feasibility

- Collaborate with utility providers, municipalities, regulatory agencies, and permitting authorities to support project development and approvals

- Perform and support value engineering analyses, providing technical recommendations that optimize constructability, schedule, operational performance, resilience, and lifecycle costs

- Develop and implement tools, templates, processes, and technical guidance that improve engineering consistency, efficiency, and quality across the portfolio

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