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Leidos Injury Biomechanist (Biomedical Engineering Research) in San Diego, California
Description
Are you looking for a career that will make an impact?
The Leidos Health Solutions Performance and Readiness Division has an opening for an Injury Biomechanist to join the Operational Readiness Directorate at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, CA. This is an exciting opportunity to support research projects aimed at studying military-related injuries resulting from impact, blast, or other factors.
Are you ready for unique and exciting work?
This is a mid-level position and responsibilities will be performed independently with general guidance from the government Principal Investigator.
Primary Responsibilities
Achieve project objectives related to injury biomechanics research project with moderate impact on the medical modeling and Warfighter program teams.
Work independently on larger, moderately complex projects and assignments related to the Navy customer’s injury biomechanics efforts. Independently load, process, and summarize various data types and large files using MATLAB or similar program. Further organize, clean, sort, and analyze data using SPSS, R, SAS, or related data analysis programs and interpret meaningful findings in tables, graphs, and written form.
Conduct casualty assessment using currently available high-rate blast data and published computational models. Provide recommendations for improvement and/or development of new models.
Perform thorough review of published literature, government technical communications, and publicly available information related to blast-injury outcomes and injury models. Synthesize and summarize findings in comprehensive and concise reports and presentations as well as provide gaps analysis.
Communicate effectively and appropriately with universities, private entities, and Department of Defense organizations who are currently developing or using similar injury prediction tools.
Attend and lead meetings as applicable to the project.
Develop relationships and project direction with team and collaborating partners.
Model Leidos values at all times.
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Interested candidates should include a resume, reference list, and college transcript with their application.
Required Education, Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Have completed a bachelor’s degree in biomedical, bioengineering, biomechanics or physics from an accredited US college or university, or international university of equivalent standard.
Have at least 2 years of experience in a military research setting, or a related setting.
Have completed basic technical coursework including multivariable calculus, statics, and dynamics.
Demonstrate strong programming skills in MATLAB or Python.
Have a strong background in engineering and physics for modeling.
Are willing to travel, up to 10% time, as needed for customer-directed requirements.
Are willing and able to work non-regular hours, as well as extended hours, such as overnight and on weekends as needed for customer efforts.
Hold US Citizenship and are able to obtain and maintain a SECRET government security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
Hold an active Interim Secret or Full Secret Security clearance.
Preferred completion of biomechanics, fluid mechanics, optimization, and/or continuum mechanics.
Have three or more years of related experience.
Naval Health West - NHW
Original Posting Date:
2024-07-02
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $65,000.00 - $117,500.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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REQNUMBER: R-00138738
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.