Biomedical Engineer

Location: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Clearance:
National Agency Check and Inquiries (NACI) with ability to obtain a Security Clearance

Salary: $104,000 to $119,000 Depending on Experience.

Summary: Craig Technologies has an opening for a Biomedical Engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In this role, you will be a critical member of the Neuroscience Laboratory in the Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division at NASA Johnson Space Center. The Neuroscience Laboratory is a key player in advancing knowledge about the effects of spaceflight on the human body.

The central focus of the laboratory is both to characterize the risks to performance of critical operational tasks and the development of countermeasures to mitigate the space flight-related changes in nervous system function associated with g-state transitions. The laboratory supports ground-based research on a variety of platforms and in-flight investigations, including crew health monitoring, risk mitigation operational activities and countermeasures evaluation and validation research.

• Participate as a member of a research team working closely with principal investigators, astronauts, subjects, support scientists, and engineers.
• Develop/prepare and provide inputs to grant proposals, reports, and manuscripts.
• Assist in the development and implementation of human research protocols and detailed test plans.
• Collaborate with customer to define project requirements and ensure all study requirements are thoroughly verified and validated.
• Prepare Institutional Review Board and other documentation required for human research testing at JSC.
• Collect, reduce, collate, analyze, and archive operational, flight, flight analog, and ground data.
• Design, develop and/or modify software and hardware for data reduction and analysis, and data collection and testing.
• Contribute to the formulation and documentation of standard procedures in the laboratory.
• Participate in scientific conferences, interact with extramural scientists, and present at JSC review boards.

Willingness and ability to undertake domestic and foreign travel, as required, to support spaceflight, bed rest, and ground-based experiments.

You bring experience leading research design and execution to help answer applied human spaceflight questions. You use your experience and judgment to develop innovative solutions to problems that will inform NASA’s future spaceflight mission planning and preparation.

• Master's degree with 4 years’ experience (with a thesis requirement), or a Ph.D. degree with 0-2 years’ experience, whose completion necessitated the collection of human subject data. A degree in biomedical or mechanical engineering, or a similar related field is preferred.
• Evidence of scientific productivity, in the form of written manuscripts or reports, and experience collecting, analyzing, interpreting, reporting, and presenting human subject data.
• Knowledge of human physiology to understand biomedical experiments designed to characterize the human adaptive response to spaceflight and spaceflight analogs is also a requirement.
• Ability to work effectively both in small teams and independently; and work effectively in a multidisciplinary setting and where there are frequently divergent or competing goals for the project implementation and outcome.
• Must develop a thorough knowledge of NASA's and K ’s policies and procedures governing the use of human test subjects.

Expertise with motion capture systems including video-based and markerless motion capture, and inertial measurement units.

• Oral and written communication skills must be excellent.
• Ability to independently write well-documented and maintainable code in MATLAB or Python programming languages is required.
• The successful applicant will need to be familiar with basic statistical techniques and principles of experimental design.
• Must be able to simultaneously coordinate multiple projects and managing individual responsibilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, highly developed organizational skills, and an ability to cope with shifting/competing goals is required.

Advanced PC Skills in Microsoft Office products are required

• Experience with platforms such as Unity and Blender for graphical user interface development and visualizations.
• Experience with mathematical and computational models.

This position is expected to 100% on site and 60% in person. Schedule varies due to testing schedule. Some relocation funds available.

Craig Technologies is an EEO Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other non-job-related protected status. All candidates selected will be subject to a security background investigation and must meet all eligibility requirements for access to classified information.