Research Engineering/ Scientist Assistant
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Job overview
The Research Engineering/Scientist Assistant supports research projects and day-to-day research operations as part of a team of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate assistants. The role involves recruiting and screening participants, collecting and analyzing MRI and behavioral data, implementing functional neuroimaging protocols, and conducting diagnostic interviews and clinical assessments with patients and control participants.
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Full job description
Provide research assistance/support for research projects and be responsible for day-to-day operations of research activities as part of a team of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate assistants.Help with recruitment, participant phone screens, consenting research subjects, and data (MRI and behavioral) collection, entry, and analysis.Oversee implementation of new functional neuroimaging protocols, including technical aspects of using 3D visual display and precise collection of psychophysiological measures during MRI scanning.Conduct diagnostic interviews and clinical assessments of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, and normative control participants.
How this job compares
Set against the 701 open Research Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$45–60K/yr66 salary ranges
- US median$18–25/hr282 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 132 open Research Assistant jobs in Texas and 701 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)81 open
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley17 open
- Texas A&M University System8 open
- Experience
- Research Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (148 postings).
- Education
- 192 of the 701 open Research Assistant jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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