INTERA Incorporated is looking for a Groundwater Modeler to join our Mining and Environmental Line of Business in the Austin, Texas, Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Denver, Colorado office. This is a great opportunity to elevate your technical skills and advance your modeling career while working alongside some of the industry’s leading experts in quantitative hydrogeology and groundwater modeling.

You will be working with a team of experts to solve technically complex hydrogeological problems. This work often includes evaluating impacts of aquifer depletion or contaminant migration, finding and developing a water source, or optimizing for groundwater quality remediation or water supply/wastewater management. At INTERA, we utilize numerical models, decision-support tools, and/or other quantitative applications to facilitate risk-informed decision making for a wide variety of clients, from municipalities to mining companies.  

If you have practical experience in the field of quantitative hydrology and groundwater modeling and can proactively tackle problems with confidence and dedication, we’d love to have you on our team.

Please provide a cover letter describing your relevant background and explain how this role aligns with your long-term career goals (attach to resume).

Our purpose is Innovation and stewardship for a sustainable tomorrow.
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Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of this position is to provide support for general hydrogeologic analyses and groundwater modeling under the direction of INTERA’s senior hydrogeologists/modelers. This includes:

• Compiling, synthesizing, and analyzing hydrogeological data
• Supporting the development of groundwater models by creating inputs and post-processing and evaluating outputs from groundwater models
• Performing numerical flow and transport modeling of the subsurface
• Report preparation, and technical presentations to clients, regulators, and other interested parties.

  

Required Qualifications

• BS or BA in Geology, Hydrogeology, Engineering, or a similar field with 2-4 years of applicable work experience
• Solid foundational knowledge of physical hydrogeology
• Experience compiling, manipulating, and analyzing datasets using programming languages (e.g., Python, R)
• Experience with hydrogeological conceptual model development
• Experience with numerical groundwater flow and transport model development
• Proficiency with programming in Python
• Experience with writing technical reports

 

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Geology, Hydrogeology, Engineering, or a similar field with an emphasis on quantitative groundwater hydrology and/or groundwater modeling
• Proficiency with data visualization using GIS software (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS)
• Familiarity with MODFLOW suite and ability to pre-process, develop, and post-process models using FloPy.

• Familiarity with model calibration and uncertainty analysis using PEST or PESTPP

 

Expected salary range:  $70,000 — $96,000 depending on degree and experience

 

About INTERA & Our Benefits

INTERA is a Top Workplaces USA 2025 award winner!

Founded in 1974, INTERA has grown into an international geoscience and engineering consulting firm that helps clients make informed business decisions, mitigate risk, and drive optimal outcomes in a multitude of industries. Building and sustaining a strong company culture is at the heart of INTERA’s practice of good stewardship. We strive to foster an environment where people love the work that they do and the place that they work because we believe that our employees are our most valuable asset. As an employee-owned company, we are committed to investing in our people’s needs for security, health, and well-being with:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance that includes a free health plan option for employee-only coverage
• Paid parental leave – up to 12 weeks for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Group term life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term and long-term coverage – paid 100% by the company
• Paid holiday, vacation, and sick time
• Opportunities for stock ownership
• Performance-based bonuses and award programs for technical paper publication
• Career coaching instead of performance evaluations
• Tuition reimbursement, financial assistance for professional licensure and registration, and one paid membership to a professional society
• Pet insurance, and more

These are some of the reasons why many of our employees have spent 10 to 25 years at INTERA. We love what we do, and it shows.