Remote Structural Design Engineer Jobs
Remote structural design engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams in sectors like civil infrastructure, industrial design, and architecture. Employers hiring remotely right now include Contech Engineered Solutions, Olsson, and ENERCON SERVICES. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Be a Key Player in Structural Engineering at Contech while working remotely!
As a Sr. Design Engineer, you will be at the forefront of designing precast concrete structures and components for a wide spectrum of projects, ranging from intricate interstate highway bridges to versatile residential, commercial, and manufacturing facilities. Additionally, we excel in creating architectural precast cladding systems, providing you with an array of fascinating design challenges.
What We Offer:
- Work-Life Balance: We understand the importance of achieving your professional goals without compromising your personal life.
- Career Growth: Join an industry leader recognized for its excellence in design, manufacturing, sourcing, and distribution. This is your opportunity to advance your career to new heights and make a substantial impact in your field.
- Comprehensive Benefits: We provide a competitive benefits package tailored to suit your unique needs and those of your family, ensuring your financial and personal well-being.
About the Role:
- Structural Design: Manage the engineering, submission, and project management of structural designs, encompassing reinforcing, connections, and transportation and erection calculations. You will also review shop drawings and submittals and address any non-conformances or related issues.
- Structural Analysis: Perform analysis and design of precast structures, components, and connections, ensuring compliance with applicable building codes and specifications.
- Problem Solving: Proactively anticipate and address potential problems, developing solutions, and communicating directly with customers to reach mutually agreeable outcomes.
- Project Management: Efficiently manage the needs of all team members involved, including project managers, drafters, estimators, architects, engineers, contractors, and production personnel.
- Customer Engagement: Collaborate with our sales group for promotion, design, specifications, installation, and issue resolution. You may occasionally participate in calls to engineering consulting firms, counties, and cities.
- Sales and Estimating Support: Assist sales and estimating departments through engineering efforts, while also offering support to production and operations in areas such as handling and lifting devices and prestressing equipment.
- Safety and Compliance: Actively support and adhere to the company's health, safety, quality, and environmental compliance programs.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, with a strong preference for a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a Structural emphasis.
- A minimum of 5-plus years of industry experience, including work in the design of precast concrete, reinforced concrete, and steel. Prestressed and/or precast concrete design experience strongly preferred.
- Registration as a Professional Engineer and the ability to become registered in multiple states.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, MathCAD, Concise, RISA-3D, or other precast concrete software. Experience with finite element analysis is considered a valuable asset.
- Familiarity with IBC, ASCE7, ACI318, PCI, AISC, AWS building codes, and specifications.
- Exceptional analytical, organizational, and proactive problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a professional, positive, and courteous manner in all interactions with customers and colleagues.
- Ability to work effectively as a proactive team player and adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands, and handle unexpected events.
- Ability to travel regularly to facilities in Salt Lake City, UT and Caldwell, ID.
If you are a talented Design Engineer with a passion for structural engineering and a sharp eye for detail, we encourage you to apply for the Sr. Design Engineer position. Your expertise will play a crucial role in driving the success of our structural products and meeting our clients' needs. Join us in making a significant impact in the world of structural engineering.
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The process is simple. Click on the “apply” button to get started. Good luck!
Contech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, transgender status, national origin, protected veteran status, or status as an individual with a disability. Click here to view information regarding your Equal Employment Opportunity rights and protections: Know Your Rights & EEO is the Law Supplement. Contech is a drug-free workplace and conducts pre-employment testing as a condition of employment. If you are unable to apply online due to a disability, contact the Contech Recruiting team at (513) 645-7000.Be a Key Player in Structural Engineering at Contech while working remotely!
As a Sr. Design Engineer, you will be at the forefront of designing precast concrete structures and components for a wide spectrum of projects, ranging from intricate interstate highway bridges to versatile residential, commercial, and manufacturing facilities. Additionally, we excel in creating architectural precast cladding systems, providing you with an array of fascinating design challenges.
What We Offer:
- Work-Life Balance: We understand the importance of achieving your professional goals without compromising your personal life.
- Career Growth: Join an industry leader recognized for its excellence in design, manufacturing, sourcing, and distribution. This is your opportunity to advance your career to new heights and make a substantial impact in your field.
- Comprehensive Benefits: We provide a competitive benefits package tailored to suit your unique needs and those of your family, ensuring your financial and personal well-being.
About the Role:
- Structural Design: Manage the engineering, submission, and project management of structural designs, encompassing reinforcing, connections, and transportation and erection calculations. You will also review shop drawings and submittals and address any non-conformances or related issues.
- Structural Analysis: Perform analysis and design of precast structures, components, and connections, ensuring compliance with applicable building codes and specifications.
- Problem Solving: Proactively anticipate and address potential problems, developing solutions, and communicating directly with customers to reach mutually agreeable outcomes.
- Project Management: Efficiently manage the needs of all team members involved, including project managers, drafters, estimators, architects, engineers, contractors, and production personnel.
- Customer Engagement: Collaborate with our sales group for promotion, design, specifications, installation, and issue resolution. You may occasionally participate in calls to engineering consulting firms, counties, and cities.
- Sales and Estimating Support: Assist sales and estimating departments through engineering efforts, while also offering support to production and operations in areas such as handling and lifting devices and prestressing equipment.
- Safety and Compliance: Actively support and adhere to the company's health, safety, quality, and environmental compliance programs.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, with a strong preference for a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a Structural emphasis.
- A minimum of 5-plus years of industry experience, including work in the design of precast concrete, reinforced concrete, and steel. Prestressed and/or precast concrete design experience strongly preferred.
- Registration as a Professional Engineer and the ability to become registered in multiple states.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, MathCAD, Concise, RISA-3D, or other precast concrete software. Experience with finite element analysis is considered a valuable asset.
- Familiarity with IBC, ASCE7, ACI318, PCI, AISC, AWS building codes, and specifications.
- Exceptional analytical, organizational, and proactive problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a professional, positive, and courteous manner in all interactions with customers and colleagues.
- Ability to work effectively as a proactive team player and adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands, and handle unexpected events.
- Ability to travel regularly to facilities in Salt Lake City, UT and Caldwell, ID.
If you are a talented Design Engineer with a passion for structural engineering and a sharp eye for detail, we encourage you to apply for the Sr. Design Engineer position. Your expertise will play a crucial role in driving the success of our structural products and meeting our clients' needs. Join us in making a significant impact in the world of structural engineering.
Ready to Apply?
The process is simple. Click on the “apply” button to get started. Good luck!
Contech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, transgender status, national origin, protected veteran status, or status as an individual with a disability. Click here to view information regarding your Equal Employment Opportunity rights and protections: Know Your Rights & EEO is the Law Supplement. Contech is a drug-free workplace and conducts pre-employment testing as a condition of employment. If you are unable to apply online due to a disability, contact the Contech Recruiting team at (513) 645-7000.See All 13 Remote Structural Design Engineer Jobs
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote structural design engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in civil or structural engineering
- Proficiency in structural analysis software such as ETABS, SAP2000, or RISA
- Experience with AISC, ACI, and ASCE design standards and building codes
- Professional Engineer license or active EIT certification preferred or required
- Ability to produce structural drawings and details using AutoCAD or Revit
- Familiarity with seismic design principles and local jurisdiction requirements
Tips for Your Remote Structural Design Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote structural design engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search the current listings, identify roles that match your software stack and project type, and apply directly while postings are fresh.
Show async collaboration in your portfolio
Remote employers want proof you communicate clearly without real-time back-and-forth. Include annotated drawings, design calculation packages, and written review responses in your portfolio to demonstrate you can move a project forward independently.
Demonstrate proficiency in cloud-based structural tools
Remote structural design teams rely on tools like RISA, ETABS, SAP2000, and cloud-shared BIM environments. Name the software versions you use and describe how you've collaborated on shared models, so hiring managers know you won't need a learning curve on their stack.
Prepare for asynchronous technical interviews
Many remote engineering teams screen through written technical exercises or recorded video responses rather than live calls. Practice explaining a past structural decision in writing, covering your load assumptions, code references, and design rationale clearly and concisely.
Remote Structural Design Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote structural design engineer job?
Target remote-first engineering consultancies and distributed infrastructure firms that have built workflows around asynchronous collaboration. Remote employers screen for proficiency in structural analysis software, strong written communication for async design reviews, and the ability to manage deliverables independently. A portfolio showing completed projects with clear documentation of your design decisions gives you a concrete edge over candidates who list only job titles.
Which companies hire remote structural design engineers?
Companies hiring remote structural design engineers right now include Contech Engineered Solutions, Olsson, and ENERCON SERVICES, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. The majority are remote-first engineering consultancies, distributed architecture and civil firms, and industrial design companies that have structured their project workflows to support fully remote technical teams.
Can you get a remote structural design engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot problems independently without on-site mentorship. Your best path is through smaller remote-first consultancies that hire junior engineers and invest in async onboarding. Showing personal projects, freelance structural work, or strong academic capstone designs that demonstrate real software proficiency and documentation habits can substitute for direct experience.
Do you need a degree for remote structural design engineer jobs?
Usually, but not always in the same way. Most remote employers expect at minimum a bachelor's degree in structural, civil, or mechanical engineering for roles requiring stamped drawings or licensed oversight. However, some firms weigh demonstrated software skill, a portfolio of completed structural designs, and licensure progress more heavily than the credential itself, particularly for support or junior-level remote positions.
Which industries hire the most remote structural design engineers?
Most remote structural design engineer openings sit in Technology & Software, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors hire structural design engineers remotely because their project-based workflows, cloud-based BIM and CAD collaboration tools, and distributed client bases make location-independent design work practical for the full project lifecycle.
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