Program Manager, Engineering Services (AI)

Location: Remote; Atlanta, GA listed in the job header; Miami, FL or Seattle, WA, or easily accessible to one of these locations. Ability to travel up to 30%.

Base salary: $156,000–$192,000. OTE: $260,000–$320,000.

Company

hirify.global develops underground exploration, mapping, digital-twin, and AI-assisted infrastructure solutions.

What you will do

• Own relationships with major engineering-services clients from contract award through closeout and renewal, including satisfaction, reporting, issue resolution, and business reviews.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineers, designers, and data specialists delivering utility design, conflict analysis, subsurface utility engineering, and related engineering-services scopes.
• Plan and control work plans, fee estimates, staffing, schedules, budgets, margins, forecasts, earned value, risks, changes, and contract amendments.
• Drive QA/QC, technical reviews, client, agency, and industry compliance, including sealed or certified deliverables and management of subconsultants and teaming partners.
• Support proposals, pursuit strategy, pricing, technical approaches, client interviews, and follow-on opportunities such as IDIQ, on-call, task-order, and design-build work.
• Grow key accounts, mentor project staff, collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Product, and Sales, and feed client insight into services, AI-assisted design tools, and the product roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Electrical, or a related engineering discipline.
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in at least one US state, with the ability to obtain comity licenses as needed.
• 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years managing design or engineering-services contracts for clients.
• Required public-sector client experience with state DOTs, transit agencies, airports, public utilities, or municipalities.
• Proven experience growing and retaining large, complex client accounts and winning follow-on work.
• Working knowledge of utility design and coordination and subsurface utility engineering.
• Strong command of project controls, including work plans, fee estimates, budgets, schedules, earned value, change management, and risk registers.
• Experience preparing proposals and presenting in client interviews.
• Understanding of public-sector procurement and contract types, including QBS, IDIQ, on-call, task-order, and design-build delivery.
• Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication with technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to travel up to 40% and work effectively in a remote, high-growth environment.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Engineering.
• PMP, DBIA, or CCM certification.
• Experience in transportation, rail, aviation, power, or water infrastructure programs.
• Experience with Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, or alliance delivery, including bridging documents.
• Experience working for or teaming with large AEC/EPC firms as a prime or subconsultant.
• Familiarity with geophysical methods such as GPR, EM, and magnetics, and ASCE 75 utility as-built data standards.
• Proficiency with MicroStation/OpenRoads, Civil 3D, Revit, and digital-delivery workflows.
• Interest in applying AI-assisted design to engineering production.
• Active involvement in professional organizations such as ASCE, ACEC, ARTBA, APTA, or ACI-NA.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture with flexibility and autonomy.
• Collaborative, no-ego environment focused on customer outcomes.
• Opportunity to influence customer success, infrastructure programs, and long-term account growth.
• Work with solutions for underground exploration, mapping, digital twins, and infrastructure delivery.