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Associate Director, Engineering Sciences - BioMechanics

Atlanta, Georgia, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States; Dallas, Texas, United States; New York, New York, United States

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ABOUT THE FIRM


Secretariat professionals are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world.

When you join Secretariat, you become part of a rapidly growing elite team of bright minds and passionate problem-solvers. Your skills and expertise will be utilized on day one – working with the world’s most renowned law firms, leading corporations, and influential institutions to answer complex questions that shape critical financial, economic, and strategic business decisions.

Our globally integrated teams are united by the ambition, energy, and commitment they bring to every challenge. We inspire and empower an open, collaborative culture that embraces ongoing professional development, recognition, diversity, and – most importantly – you.

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ABOUT OUR ENGINEERING SCIENCES TEAM

As part of our expanding Global Engineering and Scientific consulting team, you will work at the forefront of today’s most complex engineering challenges. You will be engaged in analyzing failures of a myriad of products from a variety of industries, but with a heavy focus on large industrial facilities like power plants, Oil & Gas facilities, chemical processing plants, construction, and similar. Outside of that work, you will be engaged in automotive, consumer products, consumer electronics, and medical devices.

Secretariat leverages our diverse technical expertise and industry knowledge of a variety of structures and products to provide clients with world-class value to identify solutions that drive performance and safety.

Secretariat is a diversified international expert services firm with more than 500 professionals in 20+ cities around the globe. Furthermore, Secretariat was recently ranked as the #1 firm in Global Arbitration Review’s prestigious GAR 100 Expert Witness Firms’ Power Index, and more than 90% of Secretariat’s leading experts are recognized as leading experts in their field by the independent Lexology rankings.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design and develop analytical pipelines for acquisition, synchronization, fusion, processing, and analysis of multimodal wearable and biomechanical sensor data.  
  • Collect, process, analyze, and interpret biomechanical and physiological data from both laboratory and real-world study environments as they pertain to human gait and locomotion, motor control, and predictive musculoskeletal and human movement modeling.
  • Develop algorithms, software tools, and analytical workflows for wearable sensor and biomechanics applications.
  • Work extensively with wearable sensing modalities including:  
    • inertial measurement units (IMUs)  
    • photoplethysmography (PPG)  
    • galvanic skin response (GSR/EDA)  
    • electromyography (EMG)  
    • wearable force and pressure sensing systems  
    • flexible and emerging wearable sensor technologies  
  • Apply signal processing, sensor fusion, statistical modeling, and AI/ML methodologies to derive meaningful insights from complex multimodal datasets. 
  • Develop and apply machine learning and AI approaches including:  
    • predictive analytics  
    • classification and pattern recognition  
    • anomaly detection  
    • time-series analytics  
    • human activity recognition  
    • computer vision and movement tracking  
  • Support development and validation of wearable sensing technologies and associated algorithms against laboratory-based gold-standard systems. 
  • Develop technical reports, visualizations, dashboards, and presentations to communicate analytical findings and study outcomes. 
  • Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams including engineers, data scientists, clinicians, researchers, and product development teams. 
  • Contribute to technical publications and client-facing technical activities as appropriate.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Ph.D. in Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Kinesiology, Bioengineering, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline. 
  • Strong background in biomechanics, human movement analysis, signal processing, and advanced data analytics. 
  • Experience working with wearable biomechanical, physiological, and integrated clinical sensing technologies. 
  • Experience developing analytical pipelines, algorithms, or software tools for integrated wearable and laboratory-based sensor data processing and analysis. 
  • Strong understanding of multimodal wearable sensing technologies and associated signal characteristics. 
  • Experience conducting or supporting human-subject/participant studies. 
  • Experience processing and analyzing large-scale time-series datasets generated from diverese sensing systems. 
  • Experience applying statistical analysis, machine learning, or AI methodologies to biomechanics, physiological monitoring, or other human movement datasets.
  • Strong programming and scientific computing skills using Python, MATLAB, R, and/or C/C++.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.  

 

A rewarding career above all

There are a lot of fine consulting firms out there. But when everything is on the line, it takes a unique combination of skill and savvy to succeed under pressure.

Our culture and people are driven by passion, pride, and performance. Passion for the clients we serve, the work we deliver, and the communities we live in. Pride in our cohesive team recognized for excellence and trusted to perform in the most challenging situations. And our track record of outstanding performance across all of our disciplines speaks for itself.

Our people are motivated to be the best in everything they do – from our approach to making the complex simple to the way we mentor our up-and-coming talent to become trusted experts early in their careers.

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