Cambridge Systematics is a place where individuals are able to grow and develop both personally and professionally. When you come to work for us, you’ll be joining an independent, employee-owned company, recognized nationally and internationally. Through our world class on boarding process, new hires receive introductory training from our staff subject matter experts. Ongoing learning and knowledge sharing is a hallmark of our culture and our pursuit of excellence. Through our professional development opportunities, staff can branch out into several different career paths. In addition, we offer competitive salaries and superior benefits.
Cambridge Systematics is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). In compliance with Federal and state equal employment opportunity laws, employment applicants will be considered for all positions without unlawful discrimination as to race, color, creed, religious beliefs, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, physical disability, genetic disposition, disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran status, parental status, criminal record, mental disorder, age, sex, or any non-job related medical condition or handicap. Cambridge Systematics ensures non-discrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with all Federal, state, equal opportunity laws, including without limitation, Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact our Title VI specialist at 617-354-0167 (TTY/TDD users dial 711).
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Director – India (job code CORP000318)
Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS), an internationally recognized leader in providing transportation planning and technology solutions, is in the process of establishing a Private Limited Company in India and we expect to open a new office in New Delhi, India in the next six months.
We are seeking a qualified candidate to serve as our Director in New Delhi to help execute our strategy for building our business and servicing our clients in this market.
Responsibilities: Working closely with corporate senior management in the U.S., this person will be responsible for the development and implementation of the Business Plan for India and achieving the targets set out in this plan. Specific responsibilities include:
Qualifications: Ideal candidate will have a Master’s or Ph.D. in related field; a minimum of eight years professional services management experience in transport sector services (financial management, staff management, and leading project teams); team builder with demonstrated leadership qualities; established track record of identifying and selling project work; experience negotiating contracts; ability and willingness to work collaboratively with CS’ Corporate Services Groups in the U.S.; extensive network of local clients and teaming partners in the transport sector; consulting experience and intellectual leadership in one or more of the following areas, experience working in at least three of these areas:
Individual must have an understanding of the procurement processes and procedures of: International Financial Institutions operating in India (World Bank, Asian Development Bank, DFID, GIZ, JICA, UNDP) and Indian Government ministries, organizations, and institutions. Individual must possess excellent writing and presentation skills; fluent in written and oral English and Hindi.
We are seeking an IT Director in our headquarters office in Cambridge, MA. The function of this role is to ensure that technology infrastructure supports the needs of our best-in-class consulting firm that is expanding internationally. The IT Director will plan, coordinate, direct, and design IT-related activities of the organization, as well as provide direction and support for daily operational activities of the IT department. The IT Director will work closely with decision-makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization. This person will also define and implement IT policies, procedures, and best practices, as well as understand compliance requirements. Must have strong communication and collaboration skills, experience managing staff, and experience leading a group of IT professionals.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in related field required; MBA preferred. Advanced degree or professional certification preferred, or the equivalent combination of education and experience; 7+ years of related experience in a professional services consulting environment required; effective staff management and leadership skills, strong written and verbal communication skills, detail oriented, able to multitask, able to function effectively under deadlines, and demonstrate an understanding of technology strategy and implementation.
Marketing Proposal Coordinator/Office Administrator – New York, NY
We are seeking a motivated team player for the position of Marketing Coordinator in our New York, NY office. This individual will be part of the Corporate Marketing team and report to the Marketing Operations Manager in Cambridge, MA.
This individual will be responsible for supporting the business development needs of the office, and developing familiarity with and knowledge of local markets and clients; preparing, editing, and submitting proposals to clients, including writing and assembling general proposal sections; coordinating with teaming partners and internal staff; providing support on proposal and presentation strategy; managing the certification process with local government agencies; and supporting the business development and client outreach needs of the firm.
While the main focus of this key marketing position is working with our Marketing Department to support our firm’s business development efforts, this individual also will play an important role supporting some of our office administration responsibilities. These responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, answering calls; greeting all visitors; coordinating local events from client meetings to internal teambuilding activities; addressing operations needs, including facilities, supply ordering, and mail distribution; and collaborating with support services at our corporate headquarters.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and minimum of two years of experience in professional services preferred. Individual must be detail-oriented, highly organized, and analytical; work well under deadlines; and communicate effectively. Proven proposal process experience, professional writing, editing, and proofreading skills are required.
Section 508/Desktop Publishing Specialist – Bethesda, MD
We are seeking a Section 508/Desktop Publishing Specialist for an opening in our Metro DC office in Bethesda, MD(transit accessible). This individual will use their high-level technical skills to convert documents into Section 508-compliant products. The typical conversion consists of moving data from Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign into a 508-compliant HTML and/or PDF format. The use of various existing templates will be utilized greatly. This individual will also use strong desktop publishing skills to design and layout products for print and/or digital output utilizing Dreamweaver, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Professional (i.e., newsletters, brochures, proposals). It is an extremely fast paced, deadline-driven environment and we are seeking an individual who is used to working within tight timeframes while still maintaining high-quality work.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree preferred, at least 5 years applicable work experience, detail oriented, good communicator, used to working in a team environment, and past work with FHWA ideal.
Senior Transportation Consultant and Regional Group Manager – Bethesda, MD
We are seeking a Senior Transportation Consultant and Regional Group Manager within our Transportation Planning and Management business line.
This individual will be responsible for management and development of staff in Bethesda; project management; business development in the Mid-Atlantic region and with selected Federal agencies; and new client development and ongoing client relationship management in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Qualifications: Master’s degree in Transportation Planning or a related field; minimum of 10 years of professional experience; staff management skills, proven business development, project management, technical, and client service skills; experience in sustainable community strategies, public transportation, and/or climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies highly desired.
Senior Transportation Planning Manager – Los Angeles, CA (job code TPM000206)
We are seeking a professional transportation planner with proven project management and business development skills to step into a leadership position and make their mark on transportation planning in Southern California. Join a nationally recognized firm and a growing team of planners, engineers, and economists acclaimed for innovative work in transportation planning and policy analysis. Successful candidate will report directly to national Transportation Planning business manager and work with CS professionals in California and across the country to develop creative solutions to transportation challenges faced by government agencies, transit authorities, ports, and similar clients. You will be tasked with creating and implementing business development strategies, managing client relations, and conducting leading-edge transportation research and analysis for clients in Southern California and beyond.
Qualifications: Master’s degree in Transportation Planning or a related field; minimum of 10 years of professional experience; proven business development, project management, technical, and client service skills. Experience in sustainable community strategies, public transportation, and/or climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies highly desired.
Senior Travel Demand Modeler and Project Manager – Atlanta, GA (job code TDF000001)
Cambridge Systematics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Travel Demand Modeler and Project Manager to work in our Atlanta office as part of our Travel Demand Forecasting group. This is an excellent opportunity to work with a growing team of transportation professionals to provide project management and analytical support on travel demand forecasting model development and application projects, under both traditional and advanced modeling paradigms. The role includes responsibility for direction and execution of project tasks in collaboration with other travel demand modelers in a team-oriented environment. Specific responsibilities would include developing model input data and estimating parameters, statistical analysis of travel surveys, conducting validation of travel demand models, executing model runs and evaluating results, preparing technical documentation, researching new modeling techniques, testing software enhancements, managing projects and task orders, and providing ad-hoc agency support. The position also includes some responsibility for business development activities, including proactive lead tracking and proposal development.
Qualifications: Master’s degree in either Urban and Regional Planning or Transportation Engineering; 8-12 years of experience in hands-on development and application of travel demand models; proficiency with Cube, Voyager, TRANPLAN, TP+, and TransCAD software and statistical packages such as SAS and SPSS; strong GIS analysis skills with ArcGIS and/or TransCAD; experience with Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience performing research, working with surveys, and using Census-related data products; and commitment to quality, dedication to objective analysis, and attention to detail. Experience with task/project management is highly desirable as is experience, interest, and contacts in hands-on business development in the Atlanta region. Specific application experience with Atlanta Regional Commission and Georgia DOT models, transit ridership forecasting (including New Starts), and roadway project traffic forecasting is also highly desirable. Familiarity with travel demand models used in Florida and elsewhere in the Southeast U.S. is a plus.
Software Engineers/Dev Ops – Cambridge, MA/New York, NY
We seek a mid- or senior-level software engineer who loves designing, building, deploying, and managing highly scalable web and mobile software solutions using cloud services. If you enjoy the process of designing large-scale web and mobile applications then figuring out how to automate failover, recognize and know how to engineer around SPOFs, and use Chef or other tools to automate everything you do, then we want to talk to you. The best candidates will have several years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining high-volume, data-driven, web-based, and web-mobile applications in cloud environments.
As a member of the Cambridge Systematics’ software team, you will have the opportunity to design and develop solutions that really make a difference, directly influence the evolution of the public’s access to transportation and transit-related real-time information systems, work with the latest web and mobile technologies, work directly with customers, and help raise the bar for transportation solutions.
Qualifications:
Excellent communication skills, expert with Chef, Puppet, or other devops, configuration, deployment, and monitoring tools. Strong familiarity with one or more web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Java/Spring/Hibernate, .NET, or Python django.
Transportation Analyst – New York, NY
We are seeking a Transportation Analyst in our NY office to provide engineering and analytical support to transportation clients focusing in the areas of Transportation Operations and Travel Demand Modeling; develop and implement Transportation analysis efforts; implement and use simulation models and travel demand models; integrate regional travel demand forecasting and simulation models; analyze the impacts and benefits of transportation investments; conduct Federal and state research to improve operational performance of the transportation system; and prepare technical reports and presentations.
Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering; prior experience must include: 4 years’ experience in transportation planning and engineering; 3 years’ experience with traffic data collection and analysis; 3 years’ experience with New York Region’ s Best Practice Model (NYBPM); 3 years’ experience with implementing, using, and integrating micro-simulation models (including Paramics, VISSIM, and Synchro) and travel demand models (including TransCAD); 3 years’ experience with analyzing the impacts and benefits of transportation investments using quantitative analysis and statistical modeling tools, including Transcad, Spreadsheets, ARCGIS, and SPSS; 3 years’ experience with conducting Federal and state research to improve operational performance of the transportation system; and 3 years’ experience with preparing technical reports and presentations to transportation clients and decision-makers.
Transportation Analyst – Mid Level – Oakland, CA
We are seeking a transportation consulting professional with proven project management and business development skills to help drive the expansion of our Transportation Planning and Management practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join an established and growing national team of planners, engineers, and economists recognized for innovative work in transportation planning and policy analysis.
The successful candidate will work with CS professionals around the country to address transportation challenges faced by Federal, state, and local governments, with a particular focus on clients in the western U.S. You will manage complex client projects, create and implement business development strategies, conduct leading-edge transportation research and analysis, and train and mentor other staff.
Qualifications:
Master’s degree in planning, engineering, public policy, or a related field; four or more years of professional experience, including two or more years in a related consulting environment; proven business development, project management, and client service skills; proven writing, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills; and strong analytic and problem-solving skills with fluency in transportation data, planning methods, and analysis tools.
Transportation Policy and Planning Analyst – Tallahassee, FL
We are seeking a Transportation Policy and Planning Analyst to work in our Tallahassee office as part of our Transportation Planning and Management group. This is an excellent opportunity to work with a growing team of transportation professionals to provide project management, policy, analytical, and communication support on a range of transportation planning issues.
Responsibilities: Help manage administration of a large on-call support services contract. Manage specific tasks under the on-call contract. Provide technical, administrative, and other support to managers of other tasks. Provide direction to staff supporting task work orders. Manage or support projects or tasks for other clients in Florida and the Southeastern United States in specific areas of expertise. Task requirements are likely to cover policy and legislative support, public involvement, stakeholder coordination and consensus-building, strategic communications, economic and financial analysis, systems and corridor planning, and other ad-hoc client support. The position also includes some responsibility for business development activities, including proactive lead tracking and proposal development.
Qualifications: Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Public Policy, Economics, Transportation Engineering, or related field. At least 5 years of experience in transportation planning or related fields. Experience working on transportation planning and policy tasks with quick turn around times. Ability to work independently, manage staff, and juggle multiple responsibilities. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Strong project management skills. Ability to work closely with client project manager, internal staff, and subconsultants. Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience performing research, analyzing data, and communicating results. Specific experience with the Florida Department of Transportation is a plus.
Transportation Safety Specialist/Planner – Open Location
We are seeking a mid-level transportation safety specialist/planner/engineer experienced in any of our offices working with state highway safety offices, departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and/or the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), all modes, especially the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The ideal candidate has an understanding of U.S. DOT grant and research programs, the Federal role in transportation safety, multidisciplinary safety countermeasures, performance-based planning and measurement, and transportation safety data. This individual will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide technical support to safety projects and programs; facilitate and document client meetings; write technical papers and reports; maintain excellent customer service; support project managers with progress reports and fiscal management; and assist with proposal writing and development.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in fields related to transportation safety work, e.g. transportation safety planning (infrastructure and/or behavioral), safety engineering, communications, etc. or civil engineering, urban and regional planning, etc. and 4-years applied work experience in the public or private sector. Must possess excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to provide technical and fiscal support to safety projects. Must have the ability to effectively interface with external clients and all levels of the internal organization. Knowledge of national safety-related transportation member organizations, such as GHSA, ITE, TRB, AASHTO, and the SCOHTS standing committee preferred.
Travel Demand Modeler – Chicago, IL
We are seeking a Travel Demand Modeler who has the following skills: travel demand forecasting model application and development (four-step and activity-based models), econometric model development, decision tree analysis, conjoint analysis, freight decision modeling, survey design, statistical and quantitative analysis (Cube/Voyager, TransCAD/GISDK, and ArcGIS); develop, maintain, update, and validate models with the latest internal and external information using statistical packages (SAS/SPSS LIMDEP/ALOGIT/Biogeme/Stata), Microsoft Access, Advanced Excel, SQL, and model scripting languages (MATLAB/C++/Visual Basic/Python) to improve accuracy of forecasting; develop econometric models for travel behavior and freight decision analysis; and provide analytical support to uncover trends, model assumptions, and correlations to better predict demand, mobilize data collection and retrieval efforts, and evaluate business assumptions, including but not limited to performing market research, feasibility analyses, and hypothesis testing.
Qualifications: Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering; Prior experience must include: experience in travel demand modeling (four-step and activity-based models), and in working with major travel demand forecasting planning packages (TransCAD-GISDK and Cube-Voyager); experience in statistical analysis, using the following programs: SPSS, Alogit, LIMDEP; Experience in GIS, using ArcGIS; experience in developing econometric models: logistic regression, ordinary least square regression, decision tree modeling, conjoint analysis, and iterative proportional fitting techniques; experience with Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; experience in programming in MATLAB, C++, SQL, and Visual Basic; experience in designing consumer choice surveys, sampling framework analysis, and experimental design; and coursework in Econometrics, Computational Economics, Discrete Choice Theory and Modeling, Data Acquisition and Analysis, Probability and Statistics, Transportation Planning Methodologies, Transportation Network Analysis, and Advanced Traffic Engineering.
Travel Demand Modeler – Oakland, CA
We are seeking a junior Travel Demand Modeler to work in our Travel Demand Forecasting (TDF) group. This is an excellent opportunity to work with a growing team of transportation professionals to provide support on travel demand forecasting model application and development (four-step and activity-based models), quantitative analysis, statistical analysis, geographic information system (GIS) projects, and network development.
Qualifications: Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering, Planning, or other related field; knowledge of travel demand modeling, transportation planning applications, statistical analysis, and model estimation techniques; experience working with one or more of the major travel demand forecasting planning packages (e.g., TransCAD/GISDK, Cube/TP+/Voyager, or EMME/2/3), statistical packages (e.g., SAS or SPSS); experience with Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; strong oral and written communications skills. Knowledge of GIS (e.g., ArcGIS or TransCAD); programming experience in GISDK, Cube/TP+, or other model scripting languages; or programming experience in other programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, etc.) a plus.
UI/UX Developer – Cambridge, MA/New York, NY
We seek a creative, innovative software engineer who loves building cutting-edge, highly-functional web and mobile applications, and who has expert knowledge of JavaScript, jQuery (or similar), HTML5, and CSS3 and a strong desire to keep up to date and learn new frameworks as they become available. The best candidates will have several years of experience designing and implementing web-based user interfaces and a natural talent for graphic design and a passion for making complex things seem simple.
As a member of the Cambridge Systematics’ software team, you will have the opportunity to directly influence the evolution of the public’s access to transportation- and transit-related real-time information systems, keep up to date with the latest technologies, and use your knowledge and experience to raise the bar in UI design in the transportation field.
Qualifications: Expert in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (jQuery preferred). Excellent communication skills, and proficiency with one or more of Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET, or Python. Experience designing functional, effective, compelling user interfaces, using wireframes, conducting user interviews, and testing.
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