Hybrid Associate Engineer: Water Resources & Software Tools

Santa Clara Valley Water District (CA); San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Valley Water is seeking an Associate Engineer or Associate Water Resources Specialist to support watershed and water utility projects by developing software tools for flood forecasting, emergency alerting, data ingestion, GIS analysis, and real-time operations. The role may include hydrologic/hydraulic modeling, field data collection, and environmental data analysis.

Candidates should have four years of professional water resources experience and strong programming skills (Python, Pandas/NumPy)

Qualifications

• Experience working with geospatial datasets and GIS software, such as QGIS or ArcGIS.
• Experience analyzing complex water resources data and communicating findings and recommendations.
• Experience processing large environmental time-series datasets and integrating data from multiple sources.
• Experience conducting field investigations and collecting data for water resources projects.
• Experience developing production-quality software to support water resources engineering and scientific applications, such as hydrologic modeling, water supply analysis, or environmental data analysis, using Python (including libraries such as Pandas and NumPy), Java, or a similar programming language is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Software feature development and maintenance/upkeep of existing water operation tools and systems.
• Develop new software tools for large scale hydrologic modeling and statistical analyses.
• Assist in wholistic management, collection, and review process for hydrologic data.
• Perform and review hydrologic and hydraulic modeling analyses.
• Perform stream restoration and geomorphic analyses.
• Perform field work and data collection.

Skills

Geospatial GIS

Python programming

Data analysis

Education

Civil Engineering degree

Water resources management

Tools

Git

AWS

Databases

Job description

Valley Water is seeking an Associate Engineer or Associate Water Resources Specialist to support watershed and water utility projects by developing software tools for flood forecasting, emergency alerting, data ingestion, GIS analysis, and real-time operations. The role may include hydrologic/hydraulic modeling, field data collection, and environmental data analysis.

Candidates should have four years of professional water resources experience and strong programming skills (Python, Pandas/NumPy)