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Research Scientist/Engineer 2

University of Washington

Seattle, WA, United States Full-time June 06, 2026
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Opportunity Description

**Job Description**

**The** **Civil and Environmental Engineering** **Department** **has an outstanding opportunity for a** **Research Scientist/Engineer 2** **to join their team.**

Reporting to the Research Scientist/Engineer 3, The Research Scientist/Engineer 2 will hold the position of Site Operations Engineer within the NHERI Rapid Facility. The selected candidate will join the RAPID technical staff supporting researchers in deploying tools related to collecting perishable data to support natural hazards engineering research.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Equipment Maintenance (25%)**

- Operate, maintain, and calibrate facility equipment.

- Inspection and testing of equipment prior to and following deployments.

- Track operational status of facility equipment (e.g., iPads, Laptops) and resources (e.g., on-site computing)

- Share equipment, software, and computing maintenance and troubleshooting with othe...
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