Agricultural Research Technologist

Agricultural Research Technologist 3# WSU Jobs## Agricultural Research Technologist 3

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Vancouver, WA:
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** Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on:
** November 19, 2026

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** Available Title(s):
** 570G-YN CS NPS - Agricultural Research Technologist 3
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Title:

** Agricultural Research Technologist 3
** Employee Type:
** Classified
* * Position Details:
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* The Opportunity:

**** Washington State University Vancouver’s School of Biological Sciences
** within the
** College of Arts & Sciences
** invites you to apply for a full-time, year-round Agricultural Research Technologist 3 position. In this role, you will support research aimed at understanding and improving symbiotic nitrogen fixation between rhizobia bacteria and legume plants. Your background in rhizobia genetics or genomics, legume-microbe interactions, or experimental evolutionary ecology will be valuable to this work.

Under the direction of the Principal Investigator (PI), you will plan and conduct experiments, analyze results, and interpret findings related to the genetics, genomics, and agronomy of legume-rhizobium symbiosis. You will also collaborate on scientific manuscripts, support the development of new research studies, and oversee laboratory and greenhouse spaces used by graduate and undergraduate students.

You will use your microbiological skills to conduct axenic plant-microbe experiments in controlled environments and greenhouses. Your responsibilities will also include organizing and archiving research data, maintaining computational data and code on WSU’s Kamiak high-performance computing system, and assisting lab members with research protocols and data analysis.
** Additional Information:
** This is a
** full-time** (100% FTE),
** permanent
* * position. This position is overtime
** eligible**.

** Monthly Salary:** $4,108 to $5,506 (Steps A- M) | Range 45 | Successful candidates are typically hired at the beginning of the salary range and receive scheduled salary increment increases in accordance with WAC 357-28.
In accordance with RCW 49.58.110, the above salary reflects the full salary range for this position. Individual placement within the range is based on the candidate’s current experience, education, skills, and abilities related to the position.

** Benefits:
** WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation, optional supplemental retirement accounts; training and development; and employee tuition waiver. For additional information, please review the detailed Summary of Benefits offered by WSU for Classified staff and Total Compensation.

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* Required Qualifications:

*** Bachelor’s Degree in the applied, biological, chemical, physical OR agricultural sciences AND two years of experience as an Agricultural Research Technologist 2; OR equivalent education/experience.
* Completed graduate degree in Plant Biology or Microbiology and demonstrated success with research on the genetics, genomics, and agronomy of legume-rhizobium symbiosis.
* Demonstrated experience with axenic isolation, culture, and cryopreservation of rhizobia bacteria, axenic inoculation of legume plants with rhizobia bacteria, axenic cultivation of legume-rhizobia symbioses, collection and analysis of microbial and plant phenotypic data,
* Demonstrated experience analyzing bacterial DNA sequence data and bacterial long-read genomic data, data analysis in various R packages, data archiving to cloud based repositories, analysis using a High Performance…