Staff Research Scientist
Infinity Labs•Dayton, OH
•Onsite
About The Position
Infinity Labs is seeking a Staff Research Scientist to lead scientific and engineering projects. This role involves translating customer requirements into research and evaluation strategies, developing methodologies and test plans, and leading multidisciplinary teams. The scientist will manage project scope, schedules, resources, and risks, and will be responsible for leading various types of evaluations, analyzing data, and authoring technical reports. Communication and collaboration with government stakeholders and team members are key aspects of this position, as is supporting proposal development.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressively responsible relevant experience.
- Demonstrated progressively responsible engineering experience, including technical leadership or coordination of multidisciplinary technical activities.
- Strong research-methodology and evaluation-design skills.
- Experience with anthropometry, Human Factors Engineering, Human Systems Integration, biomechanics, occupational safety, engineering, or related human-systems activities.
- Experience coordinating technical activities with Government customers.
- Strong technical writing and report-development capability.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, schedules, technical scope, and priorities.
- Ability to integrate scientific research, engineering analysis, and operational considerations into technically defensible recommendations.
- US Citizenship is required for consideration, as this job requires a US government security clearance.
- Acceptable - Secret level clearance
Nice To Haves
- Previous Principal Investigator or Technical Lead experience.
- Department of War acquisition or research experience.
- Aircraft accommodation or aircrew/protective-equipment evaluation experience.
- Human-subject research and Institutional Review Board experience.
- Anthropometric measurement and 3D scanning experience.
- Statistical analysis and database-management experience.
- Experience developing technical reports and peer-reviewed publications.
- Proposal development and technical capture experience.
- Doctorate degree or current doctoral study in a relevant discipline
Responsibilities
- Lead assigned scientific and engineering projects from initial customer question through final technical product.
- Translate customer requirements into executable research and evaluation strategies.
- Develop scientifically defensible evaluation methodologies and formal test plans.
- Lead multidisciplinary scientific and engineering project teams.
- Coordinate scientists, engineers, operational personnel, human subjects, and Government stakeholders.
- Manage technical scope, schedules, milestones, resources, risks, and priorities.
- Lead aircraft, human-system, aircrew-equipment, protective-equipment, anthropometric, and laboratory evaluations.
- Develop configuration matrices and data-collection strategies.
- Coordinate laboratory and field-evaluation activities.
- Analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative data.
- Integrate scientific findings with engineering and operational observations.
- Serve as primary author for assigned technical reports and engineering recommendations.
- Lead project meetings, technical reviews, technical interchange meetings, milestone reviews, and customer briefings.
- Communicate project status, technical risks, schedule impacts, findings, and recommendations.
- Coordinate technical contributions from multidisciplinary project team members.
- Support proposal development, staffing plans, work breakdown recommendations, labor estimating, schedules, and technical capture.
Benefits
- Flexible medical coverage with a variety of plans and carriers
- Dental and vision insurance
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Exceptionally generous 401(k) plan with guaranteed company contribution each paycheck
- Paid time-off
- Floating holidays
- Opportunities to give back through paid volunteer time
- Significant birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits
- Confidential employee assistance program
- Caregiving support services
- Tuition assistance and professional development opportunities
- Free parking
- Complimentary snacks and beverages
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
