Jobs / Management and business operations / 11-9041.00
Architectural and Engineering Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as architecture and engineering or research and development in these fields.
- US jobs
- 220,260
- Median wage
- $171,270 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of architectural and engineering managers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Manage the coordination and overall integration of technical activities in architecture or engineering projects.
- Direct, review, or approve project design changes.
- Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.
- Prepare budgets, bids, or contracts.
- Present and explain proposals, reports, or findings to clients.
- Confer with management, production, or marketing staff to discuss project specifications or procedures.
- Assess project feasibility by analyzing technology, resource needs, or market demand.
- Review, recommend, or approve contracts or cost estimates.
- Develop or implement policies, standards, or procedures for engineering and technical work.
- Establish scientific or technical goals within broad outlines provided by top management.
- Direct recruitment, placement, and evaluation of architecture or engineering project staff.
- Perform administrative functions, such as reviewing or writing reports, approving expenditures, enforcing rules, or purchasing of materials or services.
Other job titles for this occupation (33)
Civil Engineering Manager · Electrical Engineering Manager · Engineering Director · Engineering Group Manager · Engineering Program Manager · Mechanical Engineering Manager · Process Engineering Manager · Project Engineering Manager · Project Manager · Architect Manager · Architectural Project Manager · Civil Project Manager (Civil PM) · Data Engineering Director · Data Engineering Manager · Electrical Engineering Director · Electrical Project Manager (Electrical PM) · Electronics Engineering Manager · Engineering Design Manager · Engineering Project Manager · Engineering Project Specialist · Engineering Research Manager · Engineering Supervisor · Environmental Engineering Manager · Global Engineering Manager · Mechanical Engineering Director · Mechanical Project Manager (MPM) · Product Development Director · Project Coordinator · Prototype Engineer Manager · Research and Development Manager (R&D Manager) · Research Development Manager · Research Manager · Transmitter Engineer-in-Charge