Civil Engineer

For too long, we’ve relied on outside consultants for grading, drainage, and site layout - and frankly, it slowed us down and diluted the beauty of what we’re building.

We’re bringing this role in-house because we need someone who sees land as a canvas, not a constraint.

You will literally shape how the community feels underfoot:

• Roads that follow the land instead of fighting it

• Homes tucked gracefully into natural contours

• Stormwater systems that follow the logic of nature

This is a rare chance to blend engineering, architecture, sustainability, and design into one high-impact role.

Your work determines:

• Pace: How fast we can build.

• Aesthetics: How beautifully each home sits within the land.

• Sustainability: How thoughtfully we work with nature (designing roads that follow terrain, and stormwater paths that work with natural systems).

You will be the bridge between vision and reality - the person who turns world-class architecture into something constructible, intelligent, and deeply respectful of the Hill Country terrain.

You will lead civil engineering for our entire community - full stop.

This includes:

• Full-site grading, drainage, roadway layout, and retaining design

• Creating grading that makes every home feel naturally placed

• Topography-driven design that minimizes cuts, scars, and cost

Prepare and submit permit-ready civil drawing sets for:

• TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality)

• Hays County

• City of Dripping Springs

• And own the entire permitting process end-to-end.

• Work closely with global architects, designers, and MEP teams

• Collaborate daily with construction in Austin to ensure buildability

• Guide design decisions using deep knowledge of Texas codes/standards

• Translate geotechnical & survey data into actionable plans

• Develop drainage models, stormwater paths, and cut-fill strategies

• Coordinate civil work packages: roads, driveways, water/sewer, utilities

• Review consultant work and integrate it into Sanctuary standards

• Build the foundation of Sanctuary’s civil engineering processes

• Create templates, workflows, and documentation that scale to future communities

This is a role for someone who loves rolling up their sleeves, running models, walking the land, and making decisions that will shape a community for decades.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (Master’s preferred but not required)

• 6–10 years in site/civil design, grading, or land development

• Residential, mixed-use, or master-planned community experience is a plus

• Grading design, stormwater management, drainage modeling

• Road layouts, utility corridors, cut-fill optimization

• Revit + AutoCAD Civil 3D (or equivalent tools)

This matters more than anything else. You are someone who:

• Thinks with both logic and imagination

• Designs for beauty and practicality

• Loves land, water, slope, and the challenge of making them work together

• Thrives in ambiguity and early-stage building

• Wants your engineering to actually mean something

Civil engineers rarely get to work this close to:

• Architectural vision

• Environmental conservation

• Holistic community design

• A founding team shaping an entirely new way of living

At Sanctuary, your work won’t disappear into a giant firm’s folder structure.

Your decisions will shape the roads people walk, the views they wake up to, the water that runs through the land, and the experience of a community designed to make life feel better.

This is engineering with meaning.
Engineering with heart.
Engineering that cares about people and the planet.