Employment Opportunities

• Water Management Assistant Professor

  Water Management Assistant Professor Full Job Description

   

  Job Summary

  This position is an 11-month,tenure-track appointment in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE), with Research (60%) and Extension (40%) responsibilities in rural and urban hydrology and water management and is expected to begin on or before June 30th, 2024. This position is in the BAE department and affiliated with the OK Water Resources Center to provide research, training and technological assistance to Oklahoma constituents and other stakeholders. 
  

   

  Responsibilities may include:

  • Provide education, training, and support for state, area, and county educators, and relevant stakeholders
  • Develop and sustain a nationally recognized, externally funded, and responsive Extension and applied research program working at the interface of rural and urban water systems, designing control measures for sustainable water management, including transport, treatment, and use.
  • Research areas may include runoff, surface and groundwater flow, climate adaptation (e.g. flood mitigation, drought management) that supports agriculture and food operations as well as urban agriculture ventures and urban development initiatives.

   

  Skills/Proficiency:

  • Technology transfer and dissemination
  • Scholarship through traditional and progressive outreach methods, external grants/contracts, peer-reviewed publications, and other forms of scholarly effort is expected.

   

  Inquiries or questions only regarding this position may be directed to Dr. Mari Chinn, Professor and Head (mari.chinn@okstate.edu) or Dr. Randy Taylor, Search Committee Chair, (randy.taylor@okstate.edu) at (405) 744-5431.

   

• Senior Software Developer 

  Senior Software Developer Full Job Description

   

  Job Summary

  This position is a grant funded position that will develop software and computing infrastructure to automatically ingest new data streams collected from across Oklahoma from sensors deployed via this project, along with other associated data streams, into a central database. The database will be dynamically linked to a new public website, developed by this position, to allow near real-time display and analysis of soil water, groundwater, and surface water storage levels across the state. The developer will be responsible for back-end development (to utilize data captured in portals from the device data streams) and front-end development (to display data and derived information).

   

  Required: Bachelor's in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering, Information Technology/Systems/Science, Physics, or related field.

   

  Inquiries or questions only regarding this position may be directed to Dr. Kevin Wagner, Oklahoma Water Resources Center Director (kevin.wagner@okstate.edu).

• Senior Software Developer 

  Senior Software Developer Full Job Description

   

  Job Summary

  The Senior Software Developer for the Oklahoma Water Resources Center (OWRC) will serve as an integral part of a collaborative research effort between the Oklahoma State University-OWRC, USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). This joint effort, titled Dam Analysis Modernization of Tools, Applications, Guidance, and Standardization (DAM-TAGS), will develop engineering tools, design guidance documents, and computational software and applications for monitoring, inspecting, and rehabilitation of aging dams. Through this effort, the incumbent will work closely with a team of scientists at the USDA-ARS Hydraulic Engineering Research Unit (HERU) in Stillwater to address regional and national issues associated with small watershed dams, reservoirs, and channels. The developer will be responsible for writing new software code and/or updating and maintaining software code as it relates to hydraulic structures, dam breach modeling, flood routing, among others.

   

  Required: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field with three years’ experience.

   

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  Master’s in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.

   

  Inquiries or questions only regarding this position may be directed to Dr. Kevin Wagner, Oklahoma Water Resources Center Director (kevin.wagner@okstate.edu).