AECOM: Senior Traffic Engineer – Supervising Traffic Engineer — San Francisco, CA, United States

About AECOM

AECOM is an infrastructure consulting business whose employer material describes work involving transport, energy, water and the built environment. Its activities bring together planning, design, engineering, scientific work, and programme or construction management. The organisation's described projects concern the physical systems used by communities, from travel and utilities to buildings. Those activities connect technical disciplines with project delivery, supported by digital and business functions around the planning, development and management of infrastructure.

The position and its setting

AECOM lists Senior Traffic Engineer – Supervising Traffic Engineer in San Francisco, CA, United States, under reference J10162755. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 23 October 2026
• Legal Entity: AECOM Technical Services Inc
• Job Family: Civil
• Brands: AECOM

Responsibilities and work described

• AECOM is seeking a Senior Traffic Engineer – Supervising Traffic Engineer to be based in the Bay Area or in Sacramento, CA
• Senior technical resource may serve as technical advisor for team
• Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise
• Develops study and design procedures to facilitate high quality cost effective work by others
• Participates in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables
• Develops construction cost estimates and estimates of technical efforts for projects
• Uses expertise in all steps of completing discipline component of PS&E package
• Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings
• Prepares technical specification sections
• Provides input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements
• Leadership: traffic studies for projects in California and support West Coast regional projects as needed
• Caltrans experience required
• Relevant experience in transportation planning, modeling, and engineering for multimodal transportation projects
• Support: a wide range of planning and preliminary engineering projects for roadways, freeways, transit systems, managed lanes, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities
• Support: project managers on various projects involving transportation plans, traffic safety, and public involvement, and the overall preparation of CEQA and NEPA compliance documents
• Experience with FHWA, state, and local transportation planning, traffic, and environmental processes

Essential requirements and candidate background

• BA/BS + 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Certified Engineer (PE/TE/PTOE) license in California, or the ability to obtain the license within 6 months

Education and qualification routes

• Degree / qualification: Master's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent

Experience and professional background

• 8+ years of relevant experience

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience: traffic engineering projects and clients on the West Coast (California, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada)
• Experience: ITS or emerging technology projects and clients on the West Coast (California, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada)
• Experience: business development activities, including preparing project proposals and firm marketing
• Experience and familiarity with traffic operational analysis, including traffic projections, analysis, and simulation; traffic safety analysis; traffic signal warrants; traffic signal and pedestrian crossing control system analysis and design
• Experience and familiarity with ITS and technology projects following the systems engineering process and local client requirements
• The right balance of management and technical skills, and experience serving internal and external clients
• Familiarity: or knowledge of MicroStation, AutoCAD, Synchro, VISSIM, or other similar applications

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Advertised location: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to AECOM

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Practical preparation: Excel

Excel examples should identify the task, the data and the checks used to avoid an incorrect result. Explain whether you built a reporting workbook, reconciled records, automated a process or maintained an existing model.

Relevant skills

• AutoCAD
• Excel
• MS Office
• quality control
• compliance
• communication
• cost estimation
• CAD
• civil engineering
• business development
• marketing