Research Environmental Engineer

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $137k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔴 Lead

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RTI International

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1958

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

RTI International is an independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition through science-based solutions in climate, education, health, and equity. The institute engages in multidisciplinary research spanning diverse areas such as health care, international development, environmental sciences, and social and economic justice. RTI International collaborates with a wide range of partners including governments, businesses, universities, and non-profit organizations to conduct research and provide technical services. It aims to impact global wellbeing by leveraging expertise in fields such as climate change solutions, education reform, public health, food security, and more. RTI International also emphasizes corporate responsibility, sustainability, and commitment to quality and ethics in its operations.

📋 Description

• Provide senior technical input across multiple projects, define technical direction, interpret results, manage risks, and produce high-quality deliverables • Serve as a senior client-facing lead and build trusted client relationships • Manage complex implementation and research projects from scoping through delivery • Oversee planning, staffing, budgets, schedules, risks, quality review, and client and partner communications • Provide senior leadership across at least three key technical areas in water forecasting and decision support • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and external research or operational partners • Mentor technical staff and project managers • Identify emerging research suitable for implementation in client systems • Communicate opportunities to clients and lead efforts to build implementation expertise • Represent RTI in client meetings, workshops, conferences, working groups, and collaborative research activities • Establish and maintain client relationships and understand evolving needs and priorities • Identify and develop opportunities with current and prospective clients • Lead or substantially contribute to capture planning, proposals, and business development • Shape new service offerings, partnerships, and investment priorities for RTI’s forecasting and operations portfolio

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of experience, master’s degree and 10 years of experience, PhD and 8 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • Relevant field such as civil engineering, environmental engineering, hydrology, water resources engineering, environmental science, computer science, geography, or a related discipline • Deep expertise in operational water forecasting and decision support • Experience with data, models, workflows, verification methods, and operational constraints affecting forecasting and decision-support systems • Proven experience leading technical projects, workstreams, or applied research involving multiple contributors and stakeholders • Strong project leadership skills, including scope definition, interdisciplinary work organization, risk anticipation, decision-making, and delivery of high-quality work • Experience working directly with clients, sponsors, operational agencies, utilities, or research partners • Experience contributing to business development, opportunity identification, client engagement, concept development, proposal preparation, or expansion of existing work • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Ability to communicate complex technical information to technical and nontechnical audiences • Ability to develop and articulate technical or research ideas and translate them into fundable, executable work • Ability to provide senior review, mentorship, and technical guidance • Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship • Preferred: experience with ensemble hydrologic prediction, probabilistic forecasting, uncertainty characterization, bias correction, post-processing, or forecast verification • Preferred: experience developing AI/ML or hybrid process-based and data-driven methods • Preferred: experience applying data assimilation methods • Preferred: experience with reservoir system modeling, forecast-informed reservoir operations, or optimization • Preferred: experience with Delft-FEWS, National Weather Service forecasting models and workflows, RiverWare, HEC platforms, or comparable systems • Preferred: experience with coastal, urban/stormwater, or groundwater modeling • Preferred: working knowledge of Python, geospatial tools, cloud computing, or data engineering • Preferred: experience with federal water agencies, River Forecast Centers, reservoir operators, or hydropower utilities • Preferred: experience leading or contributing to collaborative research with academic, government, nonprofit, and private-sector partners • Preferred: record of technical publications, conference presentations, workshops, or leadership in professional and research communities

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Generous paid time off policy • Merit-based annual increases • Bonus opportunities • Robust recognition program • Health, dental, life, and short-term and long-term disability insurance plans • Retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan • Paid parental leave for all parents • Financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments • Financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities • Employee assistance program • Other offerings supporting work-life balance

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