The Company

　　Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?

　　J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realize value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets.

　　The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.

　　The Team and Job Summary

　　We are seeking a Human Factors Scientist to join our Human Factors team. This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial, highly driven person with a well-rounded skill set to join the Human Factors team, whose responsibilities occupy primarily the medical device space, but also extend beyond those of traditional Human Factors professionals. The ideal person for this role will need to have not only a strong grasp of, the FDA regulations and guidance around medical devices, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and combination products, as they relate to human factors, but also be flexible and a strategic thinker able to take on a variety of tasks. The Human Factors team excels at crafting creative simulations of different use scenarios and use environments. The work you will be performing in adjacent industries will benefit you in allowing you to port over best practices and insights gleaned from the automotive, consumer electronics, appliances, heavy machinery, child product, and extended reality product industries. If useful for formative testing, methodologies from the basic sciences are at your disposal, including eye tracking, physiological data recording, or motion capture. You will help in operationalizing client needs as empirical research questions, designing bespoke studies around those research questions, collecting data from participants using a wealth of custom-tailored methodologies, analyzing data in creative ways, and translating the results back into actionable outcomes for our clients. Because of the centrality of successful human-machine interaction to the safety of users and other stakeholders, your work may also entail working up litigation matters related to alleged product defects and, eventually, testifying as an expert witness. As a consultant, your experiences will be as varied and diverse as the products and services out there, possibly spanning automotive, medical, pharma, consumer electronics, appliances, heavy machinery, child products, and extended reality products.

　　Please submit an academic CV, rather than a resume, unless you are a candidate with industry experience.

　　Job Responsibilities

　　This role will entail study design, execution, data analysis, and report preparation.

　　It will require multitasking between multiple concurrent projects.

　　It will eventually require client-facing activities, such as business development.

　　You may also eventually serve as a testifying expert in litigation.

　　A successful candidate is one who has tenacity, endurance, perseverance, and determination, as well as creativity, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship.

　　Required Qualifications

　　Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in Experimental, Developmental, Perceptual, or Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, or a related basic scientific psychology field preferred.

　　A minimum of two years experience in healthcare human factors.

　　Strong familiarity with FDA’s regulations and guidance regarding human factors

　　Ability to work closely with regulatory experts, biomedical engineers, and other domain experts outside of human factors

　　Excellent oral and written communication skills.

　　Entrepreneurial drive and passion to succeed.

　　Proven track record of ownership of empirical research, from study inception to study design and execution to data analysis and interpretation.

　　Excellent inferential statistics and data analytic skills.

　　Possible interest in potential litigation support and/or forensic work.

　　Physical and Mental Job Qualifications

　　Ability to travel as needed, depending on project assignments .

　　Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer .

　　Some of the Benefits We Have Include

　　J.S. Held understands all our employees are people and sometimes life needs flexibility. We work to always provide an environment that best supports and suits our team’s needs.

　　Our flexible work environment allows employees to work remotely, when needed

　　Flexible Time Off policy

　　Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

　　401k Match

　　Commuter Benefit

　　A reasonable estimate of the salary range for this role is $110,000 - $125,000. Any offered salary range is based on a wide array of factors including but not limited to skillset, experience, training, location, scope of role, management responsibility, etc.

　　Other Duties

　　Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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　　EEO and Job Accommodations

　　We embrace diversity and our commitment to building a team and environment that fosters professional and personal enrichment is unwavering. We are greater when we are equal!

　　J.S. Held is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

　　If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request for a reasonable accommodation, please email and include “Applicant Accommodation” within the subject line with your request and contact information.

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　　Employment Type

　　Full Time