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Virginia Tech

Assistant Research Applications Programmer

🇺🇸 Blacksburg, VA

🕑 Part-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ December 8th, 2025

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Edtech.com's Summary

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) is hiring an Assistant Research Applications Programmer. The role involves developing and supporting research-facing tools and solutions, focusing on creating nimble, efficient applications for researchers and staff that require rapid development, iteration, and deployment with emphasis on usability.

Highlights
  • Develop and support applications to assist researchers and staff across various projects.
  • Work on small-scale software efforts requiring quick turnaround and high usability.
  • Required skills include programming fundamentals, SQL databases, data serialization formats (JSON, XML, protobuf), and web application development.
  • Preferred experience with React, pandas, parquet, R, dash, and Python web frameworks like FastAPI or Flask.
  • Strong communication skills to manage software specifications and customer interactions with supervision.
  • Currently pursuing or recently completed a B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Position pays commensurate with experience and is non-exempt (eligible for overtime).
  • Part-time role averaging 20-30 hours per week.
  • Candidate must pass a criminal conviction check.
  • Supports research projects within Virginia Tech’s Transportation Institute, embedded in a leading global research university.

Assistant Research Applications Programmer Full Description

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.
Pay Band
4
Overtime Status
Non-Exempt: Eligible for overtime
Appointment Type
Restricted
Salary Information
Commensurate with experience
Hours per week
20-30 on average
Review Date
12/15/2025

Additional Information
The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.

About Virginia Tech
Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.

Virginia Tech endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance.  These valuable contributions to university shared governance provide important representation and perspective, along with opportunities for unique and impactful professional development.

Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Natalie Jett at njett@vtti.vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.

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