Research Engineer II - Data Visualization

Job Title

Research Engineer II - Data Visualization

Texas A&M University System Offices

Bush Combat Development Complex

Commensurate

Bryan, Texas

Staff

The System Offices is one of several system members within the Texas A&M University System representing one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation, with a network of 12 universities, a comprehensive health science center, eight state agencies, Texas A&M – Fort Worth and the Texas A&M - RELLIS Campus. The Texas A&M University System mission is to provide education, conduct research, commercialize technology, offer training, and deliver services for the people of Texas and beyond.

The System Offices, within the Texas A&M University System, provides an outstanding benefits package including, but not limited to: competitive health benefits; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; a defined benefit retirement plan to include an employer contribution through Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS); if applicable, a defined contribution retirement plan to include an employer contribution through an approved ORP vendor: additional voluntary tax deferred annuity (TDA) options;

tuition assistance; and wellness programs to promote work/life balance.

$4,617.67 - $7,916.67 per month commensurate with experience.

The Research Engineer II – Visualization Analytics Engineer independently applies scientific, software engineering, and data analytics expertise to develop advanced visualization, analytics, and decision-support capabilities supporting the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC). Reporting to the Networks, Analytics & Data Operations (NADO) Unit Lead, this position transforms complex research, test, and operational data into intuitive visual products that accelerate analysis and improve decision-making for researchers, test directors, and external sponsors.

The Visual Analytics Engineer collaborates with multidisciplinary teams across the BCDC, Innovation Proving Grounds (IPG), Ballistics, Aero-Optics & Materials (BAM), Texas A&M System organizations, government agencies, industry partners, and universities to design, develop, and deploy modern visualization and analytics solutions supporting experimentation, digital engineering, autonomy, AI/ML, and advanced test and evaluation.

• Design and develop interactive data visualization applications supporting research, experimentation, and operational test events.
• Transform complex engineering, scientific, sensor, and telemetry datasets into intuitive visual products for technical and executive audiences.
• Develop dashboards and analytical applications using modern visualization frameworks including Plotly Dash, Tableau, Power BI, D3.js, Grafana, or equivalent technologies.
• Design visual interfaces supporting real-time monitoring of research experiments, instrumentation systems, autonomous platforms, and range operations.
• Collaborate with research engineers to understand scientific objectives and translate analytical requirements into visualization solutions.
• Develop automated data pipelines supporting ingestion, cleaning, transformation, and visualization of structured and unstructured data.
• Support visualization of machine learning outputs including model performance, feature importance, confidence metrics, clustering, classification, and anomaly detection.
• Integrate visualization capabilities into software applications, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and edge computing environments.
• Develop web-based tools enabling researchers to explore, filter, compare, and analyze experimental data.
• Create geospatial visualization products supporting test range operations, mobile platforms, and distributed sensing.
• Participate in verification and validation activities to ensure data integrity and visualization accuracy.
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