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Exponent Managing Scientist - Biomechanics (Ph.D.) in Bellevue, Washington
Managing Scientist - Biomechanics (Ph.D.) ID 2024-1622 Location US-AZ-Phoenix Practice Biomechanics Position Type Full-time Posted Salary Range USD $134,000.00 - USD $172,500.00 /Yr. Workplace Type On-Site About Exponent Exponent is the only premium engineering and scientific consulting firm with the depth and breadth of expertise to solve our clients' most profoundly unique, unprecedented, and urgent challenges. We are committed to engaging multidisciplinary teams of science, engineering, and regulatory experts to empower our clients with solutions that create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world. For over five decades, we've connected the lessons of past failures with tomorrow's solutions to advise clients as they innovate technologically complex products and processes, ensure the safety and health of their users, and address the challenges of sustainability. Join our team of experts with degrees from top programs at over 500 universities and extensive experience spanning a variety of industries. At Exponent, you'll contribute to the diverse pool of ideas, talents, backgrounds, and experiences that drives our collaborative teamwork and breakthrough insights. Plus, we help you grow your career through mentoring, sponsorship, and a culture of learning. Thanks for your interest in joining our team! Key statistics: 950+ Consultants 640+ Ph.D.s 90+ Disciplines 30+ Offices globally Our Opportunity We are currently seeking a Managing Scientist for our Biomechanics Practice in Phoenix, AZ or Bellevue, WA. In this role, you will work as part of a team to help our clients solve challenging technical problems which are often urgent, high profile, and multi-disciplinary. You will be involved in projects representing a broad range of client types and associated needs, such as human performance, health, and wellness technologies, consumer products, technology adoption and integration into niche (e.g., clinical, military, elite sports) markets, and digital health. You will also work to execute consulting projects related to human injury analyses. This may involve an analysis of the human body's response to forces generated during an incident or during interaction with a product to determine the potential for injury, an analysis to determine if and/or how an injury occurred, and an analysis of how such injuries could have been mitigated. You will have the opportunity to define and shape your individual consulting practice based on your skills and interests. You will be responsible for Attracting new clients, developing new business, leading projects, conducting research, creating, and using analytical tools, and synthesizing technical, biomechanical issues involving kinematics, dynamics, physiology, and data analytics (e.g., AI/ML) Writing proposals to initiate and/or support existing and new opportunities in the human performance, health, and wellness technology sectors and in consumer products, digital health, and other related areas. Designing and executing human experiments to quantify and interpret explicit health, wellness, and performance characteristics within naturalistic movement environments Conducting safety assessments pertaining to injury potential associated with the use and/or misuse of various consumer, medical, and industrial products Using state-of-the-art analytical approaches to inform real-world technology and/or consumer product insights, as well as optimal technology integration strategies and approaches Assisting in conducting research, publishing reports and papers in technical journals, and presenting findings at meetings and conferences Managing projects with effective cost-control measures Recruiting and developing the careers of junior st