Senior Geotechnical Engineer Specializing in Earthquake Engineering (or Senior Seismologist)

Description

Position Summary: As a Senior ENGEO Geotechnical Engineer with a specialty in Earthquake Engineering or a Senior Seismologist, we would love to see you come in and hit the ground running. While working with ENGEO’s team, you will work on a wide variety of challenging, world-renowned projects. You will be encouraged and supported to lead increasingly complex and seismically challenging projects.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work as part of the team to perform seismic analyses such as ergodic and non-ergodic seismic hazard, ground-response, and ground-motion development for projects in the Western United States, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
• Lead seismic development of design recommendations for design and construction of private and public projects.
• Effectively communicate and collaborate with clients, subcontractors, government agencies, project managers (locally and in other regional offices), and peers.
• Will be assigned increasingly more complex tasks and projects
  
  

A Few Notable Projects

• Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Multiple Technology Campuses for Google, YouTube, and Facebook, Bay Area, CA
• Oceanwide Center, San Francisco, CA
• Metro Purple Line Extension, Los Angeles, CA
• Taranaki Base Hospital, New Plymouth, New Zealand
• Transmission Gully Highway, Wellington, New Zealand
• Kaikoura Earthquake rehabilitation of State Highway and Railway, South Island, New Zealand
  
  

Requirements

Our Ideal Candidate

Thorough Knowledge Of Earthquake Engineering, Such As

• Ground Motion Models
• Seismic Source Characterization
• Ergodic and Non-Ergodic Seismic Hazard Analysis
• Time-History Scaling and Matching
• Site-Response Analysis
• Working knowledge of the software program HAZ45, or equivalent program
• Coding capability in Python and/or Matlab
• Fundamental knowledge of Geotechnical Engineering or willingness and ability to learn is preferred.
  
  

All Candidate Criteria

• Education: M.S. degree in a relevant field, PhD is preferred.
• Proficiency in GIS experience is a plus.
• Robust writing and communicative skills
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic, and diverse environment
• Have the ability to work and succeed as a team while being resourceful when working alone
  
  

NOTE TO EXTERNAL SEARCH FIRMS: ENGEO does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not be obligated to pay a placement fee for unsolicited resumes. Please do NOT send resumes to ENGEO employees. Please work through the Human Resources Department.