Fire Engineer

Fire Protection Engineer

Arup's purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Our West+LATAM Geography is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer in Arup's fire engineering practice to join us in the Los Angeles office.

This position will work closely with leading architects/engineers, process designers, end-users and building developers/owners, and will provide innovative, facility-specific, and performance-based solutions for a wide range of projects spanning commercial, property, healthcare, government, and institutional markets. The successful candidate will complement our fire protection engineering team contributing to technical engineering services on our projects and assist in managing ongoing projects.

The America's fire and life safety team forms an integral part of the global fire engineering team which spans around the globe. The role will involve interactive and collaborative working with our fire engineers and multi-disciplinary colleagues. The projects will be diverse, exciting and range from conceptual fire strategy development to delivery of landmark projects in the built environment.

The Opportunity

In this role you will provide fire protection and life safety consulting engineering services to a variety of potential clients, such as architects, developers, owners, government and insurers, including:

• Provide consulting for life safety, building, and fire code compliance.
• Perform dynamic egress modeling.
• Develop structural fire calculations.
• Contribute to the development of prescriptive and performance-based design strategies.
• Work alongside senior engineers to incorporate fire and life safety strategy concepts into the design and review.
• Create life safety drawings for conformance with the life safety.
• Develop fire alarm, detection, and fire suppression systems design documents and specifications.
• Perform smoke control analysis and fire modelling.
• Perform risk assessments.
• Perform hazardous material analysis for code compliance, including but not limited to hazardous material classifications, quantity analysis, and inventory management strategies.
• Knowledge of hazardous material occupancy code requirements, including the concepts of control areas, laboratory units, and/or high hazard occupancies.
• Perform project site visits and communicate with architects, contractors and consulting teams.
• Prepare and present technical reports and presentations to project stakeholders.
• Contribute to client proposals.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

• At least 3 years of professional working experience in Fire Protection Engineering.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Fire Protection Engineering or related field.
• Strong communication skills essential for team-based working.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to convey technical findings and solutions to owners, user groups and design teams.
• Working knowledge of relevant software, including Office suite of software, FDS, AutoCAD / Revit.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at

Our Application Process

We will be reviewing our candidates for this position on a rolling basis. Once you have applied you will be evaluated and potentially moved on to the next round, at which point a member of the talent resourcing team will reach out to you directly.

Arup is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of a protected veteran, or disability.