What you'll do

As BIM Designer, Civil & I&C, you'll own everything that sits below grade and outside the building line in our federated model. Anything from foundations and equipment pads, electrical duct banks and underground raceway, grounding, and equipment yard layout. This role sits inside our growing BIM function, working shoulder-to-shoulder with electrical, structural, and civil designers to keep one federated model as the single source of truth from design through fabrication and field support.

Where you'll work

We are an in-office culture — velocity matters when you're building physical infrastructure, and the best decisions happen in the room. This role is ideally based in our San Francisco, Long Beach, or Houston offices, with full-time onsite expectations outside of bi-weekly WFH Fridays.

That said, we will make exceptions for truly exceptional talent if you live outside one of our hubs. If you're the right person for this role, we'll have a conversation about what works.

Responsibilities 

• Model foundations, equipment pads, embeds, and anchor bolt setting plans for transformers, substations, switchgear, and other heavy equipment, coordinated against equipment general arrangement drawings
• Model electrical duct banks and underground raceway — conduit arrangement, encasement, bend radii, spare capacity, manholes, and pull boxes
• Model the grounding system — ground grids, rods, conductor routing, and connections to pads, structures, and fence lines
• Model outdoor structures and equipment yard layout, including electrical clearances, phase spacing, and maintenance access
• Take in Civil 3D surfaces, utility networks, and survey data and reconcile them into the federated model, including shared coordinates and georeferencing
• Own the outdoor and underground models within the federated set and run underground clash cycles — duct bank against foundation, grounding against structure — resolving conflicts rather than just reporting them
• Produce foundation plans, duct bank plans and sections, grounding plans, and yard layout drawings to Giga's CAD standards
• Generate model-based quantity takeoffs for concrete, reinforcement, steel, and conduit to support estimating and procurement
• Build and maintain the parametric family library for repeatable outdoor and underground content — pads, duct bank sections, manholes, and bus supports

Requirements

• Expert-level Autodesk Revit, 5-8 years, including structural modeling, family creation, parametric content, worksharing, and shared coordinates
• Demonstrated experience modeling foundations, equipment pads, and anchor bolt or embed layouts for heavy equipment
• Demonstrated experience modeling underground electrical raceway or duct banks — routing, encasement, spare capacity, manholes, and pull boxes
• Industrial, energy, substation, or mission-critical background; commercial or residential Revit experience alone will not transfer to this scope
• Able to read, link, and reconcile Civil 3D data — surfaces, pipe networks, alignments, and survey points — into a Revit model
• Working knowledge of NEC Article 300.5, NESC / IEEE 605, IEEE 80, ASCE 7, ACI 318, and AISC 360
• Navisworks proficiency, including running clash tests and resolving interference in your own models
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

Bonus points

• Experience designing civil systems for data centers, mission-critical, or other technically complex industrial facilities — multi-block sites, high-density underground electrical distribution, utility interconnection
• Substation civil and structural work — yard layout, equipment foundations, grounding grids, oil containment
• Hands-on Civil 3D authoring ability
• Modular or repeat-deployment work where the model drives a factory build and gets reused rather than redrawn
• Dynamo or Revit API scripting to automate repetitive modeling and QA

Benefits

• Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Equity (options) in a rapidly growing startup
• 401(k) with 4% employer match
• Unlimited PTO
• Parental leave
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Commuter benefits
• Team on-sites where all offices come in–person to collaborate