Principal Research Scientist

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Principal Research Scientist

Dayton, Ohio

You are the person people call when “close enough” is not scientifically good enough. You look at a crew station, protective system, dataset, digital manikin, or accommodation model and immediately start asking harder questions.

Is the population representative? Is the methodology valid? Does the model actually reflect human variation? Are the assumptions defensible? Can this conclusion withstand an independent technical review?

You are interested in science that gets used. Your work may influence design, body-size requirements, protective equipment, acquisition decisions, and who can safely operate a weapon system.

You are comfortable challenging assumptions, developing new methods, validating established methodologies, and explaining complex anthropometric and statistical concepts to engineers, program managers, acquisition professionals, and senior leaders.

Infinity Labs is an innovation-driven company with world-class expertise in the defense and national security sectors. Infinity provides cutting-edge engineering technologies and solutions, including modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A), research and development (R&D), cyber operational technology, and training. Our extensive project portfolio covers a vast range of physical scales and applications, from materials and components to subsystems, platforms, and systems of systems.

We integrate science and systems as part of our overall solutioning approach and we investigate advanced concepts and technologies with disruptive application potential. The sophistication of our work directly reflects the ingenuity and proficiency of our team. Our workforce shapes the future, and our employees are our greatest asset.

• Establish and maintain scientific standards for laboratory research and evaluations.
• Serve as the laboratory’s senior scientific authority.
• Lead advanced anthropometric and statistical analyses.
• Develop and validate multivariate anthropometric models.
• Develop and validate aircraft and crew-station accommodation methodologies.
• Lead or review body-size boundary case development.
• Provide scientific leadership for Digital Human Modeling and digital-to-physical validation.
• Review human-subject research methodology and scientific protocols.
• Evaluate scientific validity, repeatability, uncertainty, and data quality.
• Conduct independent scientific reviews of major technical products.
• Validate scientific conclusions and engineering recommendations.
• Lead data-analysis and accommodation-determination efforts for complex evaluations.
• Mentor scientists, investigators, engineers, and developing technical personnel.
• Develop research strategies, methodologies, publications, white papers, and proposal approaches.
• Present complex technical findings to Government scientists, engineers, acquisition leaders, and senior decision makers.
• Support collaboration with government laboratories, universities, research organizations, industry partners, and operational stakeholders.

• 15+ years of directly relevant scientific or technical experience.
• Expert knowledge of engineering anthropometry and human body-size variation.
• Expert capability in multivariate statistical analysis and anthropometric modeling.
• Extensive aircraft, cockpit, workstation, equipment, or human-system accommodation experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing or validating scientifically defensible accommodation methodologies.
• Extensive experience with Digital Human Modeling and model validation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex scientific analyses and provide independent technical judgment.
• Strong scientific writing, technical editing, peer-review, and briefing…