Facts
as of Nov 13, 2026
BKF Engineers is a civil engineering, surveying, planning and construction management firm based in Redwood City, California, serving clients in the transportation, water resources, government and land development markets. With more than 110 years of history, the firm has over 800 professionals in more than 20 offices across California and the Portland area, and Engineering News-Record West named it California Design Firm of the Year for 2026. It hires civil and design engineers for land development and transportation, project managers, surveyors and survey party chiefs, construction managers, biologists and engineering technicians.
It is hiring: 87 open roles, 15 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 14% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, United States
- Founded
- 1915
- Employees
- 416US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +3% in a year
- Open roles
- 87 in 33 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- bkf.com
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 87 open roles at BKF Engineers. BKF Engineers is headquartered in Redwood City, United States. It was founded in 1915. The median pay stated in its open roles is $160k, across 82 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
77/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
30%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 36 of open roles.
15Posted in 30 days17% of open roles are fresh
14%Remote roles12 of 87
33Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
91 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States91On site
Remote, from elsewhere12Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 12.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
BKF Engineers73 days
Market, same roles38 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand38
Pay31
Your chance53
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+2%
Sep 14This week
Open roles a week: 82 then, 84 now
Are the postings real?
B
77 / 100BKF Engineers scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 84 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 30% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 73 days.
Ghost roles30%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering36▼
Finance22▲
Management22▼
Administrative6
Operations4
Analytics2▲
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 100%
78 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
401k plan8497%
Flexible schedule7789%
Professional development56%
Growth opportunities45%
Generous vacation33%
Equity22%
Hybrid work11%
Contract type
Full-Time 83Internship 1Contract 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 14% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$162kMedianmarket estimate $140k
$135k – $207kTypical rangeUSD a year
$333kHighest paying roleBusiness Sector Lead - Water Resources
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $140k
Senior18$149k$142k – $180k
Staff+3$92k$87k – $92k
Lead13$230k$188k – $264k
Head+5$230k$220k – $250k
$0$75k$150k$225k$300k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Named in the work visa registers of United States.
6 ▲ 200%H-1B filings in 12 months
2Green card filings
$99kMedian offered salary
In the register as BKF ENGINEERS, Oakland, CA (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 7, 2026
Footprint
Hiring in 33 cities in 1 country.
33Cities
1Countries
San JoseBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Technologies named in job postings at BKF Engineers over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
11Technologies in use
37Postings analysed
68/100Stack modernity
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Newsroom
top 2%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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Jul 162026
Blog
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Press release · businesswire.com
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