Job No. 157247
- Job Title:
- Assistant Research Applications Programmer
- Employer:
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VT
- Location:
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Blacksburg , VA
- Posting Date:
- 08-Dec-2025
- Description:
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Job Description
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) seeks a motivated entry-level applications developer to assist with and support the development of research facing tools and solutions.
This position focuses on helping create nimble, efficient applications to support researchers and staff across a wide range of projects and dynamic requirements. The successful candidate will work on smaller-scale software efforts that require rapid development, iteration, and deployment. Projects will often emphasize quick turnaround and high usability over large-scale systems development.
Required Qualifications
-Currently pursuing or recently completed a B.S. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
-Knowledge of programming fundamentals
-Some experience working with data serialization SQL databases
-Familiarity with data serialization formats like JSON, XML, protobuf, etc.
-Strong work ethic and ability to work independently with the right guidance.
-Must have good communications skills, be able to work with customers to adjust software specifications and manage trade off decisions, with supervision.
-Experience with web application development.
Preferred Qualifications
-Experience in research and/or developing applications to support research.
-Experience with React, pandas, parquet, R, and dash.
-Experience with python web frameworks like FastAPI or Flask.
-Demonstrated experience in data engineering or data analytics, especially with a focus on visualization.
-Demonstrated experience processing and manipulating large scale real-world data.