Kimley-Horn Tech Stack

Multi-discipline planning and design consulting across infrastructure, energy, and environmental services

Engineering Services Raleigh, North Carolina 5,001–10,000 employees Founded 1967 Privately Held

Kimley-Horn is a 9,000+ person engineering and design consulting firm operating 140+ U.S. offices. The tech stack is dominated by CAD, simulation, and GIS tools (AutoCAD Civil 3D, Revit, STAAD, HEC-RAS, GIS, ArcGIS) — typical of large infrastructure practices — with ongoing adoption of Microstation and VISSIM signaling investment in traffic simulation and roadway design. Hiring is heavily weighted toward engineering roles (1,251 of 1,527 active positions), with junior and senior engineers nearly equal in volume, suggesting both scaling execution capacity and filling experienced leadership gaps across practices.

Tech Stack 148 technologies

Core StackAutoCAD Revit SketchUp Python MATLAB Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator ArcGIS AWS AutoCAD Civil 3D STAAD Mathcad Excel GIS Civil 3D SWMM FLO-2D HEC-RAS Microstation ETAP PSCAD VISSIM WaterGEMS SewerGEMS PVSyst OpenRoads InDesign PowerPoint Azure SQL Server Integration Services+118 more

AdoptingAutoCAD Civil 3D Excel Microstation VISSIM GIS

What Kimley-Horn Is Building

◆Challenges

Expanding land development practice
Managing projects profitably
Project profitability
Expanding water/wastewater practice
Profitable land development projects
Growth of transportation engineering practice
Expanding environmental practice
Expanding roadway practice
Winning new work
Expanding surface water practice

▲Active Projects

Expand land development practice
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
Expanding roadway practice in local market
Water/wastewater treatment projects
Energy storage projects
Intelligent transportation systems (its) design – traffic operations centers, sensors, message signs, cctv, fiber optic networks
Solar site design
Pipeline design
Land development design projects
Municipal roadway design projects

Hiring Activity

Steady1,500 roles · 550 in 30d

Department

Engineering

1251

Design

Marketing

Construction

Finance

Ops

Support

Seniority

Senior

464

Mid

441

Junior

364

Intern

193

Lead

Manager

Staff

Notable leadership hires: Product Head, Roadway Practice Lead, Transmission & Distribution Lead, Survey Party Chief, Contract Lead

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About Kimley-Horn

Kimley-Horn provides planning, design, and engineering services to municipal, transportation, energy, and environmental clients across the United States. The firm operates through nine core service lines: aviation, roads and bridges, intelligent transportation systems, land development, landscape architecture, environmental services, energy, forensic engineering, and parking. Recent project focus includes electric vehicle charging infrastructure, solar site design, water and wastewater treatment, pipeline design, and traffic operations centers. The company has been in operation since 1967 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

HeadquartersRaleigh, North Carolina

Company Size5,001–10,000 employees

Founded1967

Hiring MarketsUnited States, India

Frequently Asked Questions

What software does Kimley-Horn use for civil engineering design?

Primary tools include AutoCAD Civil 3D, Revit, STAAD, Microstation, GIS/ArcGIS, HEC-RAS (hydrology), SWMM (stormwater), WaterGEMS (water infrastructure), and traffic simulation software (VISSIM). Python and MATLAB support analysis workflows.

What is Kimley-Horn working on right now?

Current projects focus on electric vehicle charging infrastructure, intelligent transportation systems design (traffic operations centers, CCTV, fiber networks), solar site design, water/wastewater treatment, energy storage, pipeline design, and expansion of roadway and land development practices.