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GS13 Research positions don't open very often! Great opportunity for someone that wants a career conducting research to advance care for those with extremity trauma.
This will be an extremely unique opportunity for someone to be at the center of orthosis/exoskeleton development projects that represents a complete paradigm shift in orthotic treatments and enable our Service Members to remain mobile after severe extremity trauma on the battlefield.
Here’s the background. We do not expect to have air superiority in future conflicts (google, “US Army Multi-Domain Operations” for more). This means medical evacuation times will be drastically increased from hours to days and this creates a situation termed, “prolonged field care”. In addition, unit mobility will be key for survival. Therefore, we need to develop solutions to get our wounded up and moving during these prolonged field care scenarios or they may not survive.
Development of technologies and solutions to address high energy trauma in austere environments is a high priority for the Dept. of Defense. Throughout the past year, we have been actively pursuing ways we can raise to this challenge. These efforts have recently come to fruition and we are now retooling the lab and our personnel to accomplish this. This GS13 engineering position will be at the center of several parallel development projects all focused to find exoskeleton solutions to enable our Service Members to stay mobile after major extremity injury.
Link for more information and to apply:
About the Position: Position is located at the Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE), Research and Surveillance Division, Center for The Intrepid (CFI), Fort Sam Houston, Texas conducting research studies aimed at improving the function and quality of life for patients with traumatic extremity injuries, including limb loss.
This position will support the EACE’s mission to; advance medical and scientific knowledge through relevant research that will optimize clinical care and quality of life for Service members and Veterans with traumatic extremity injuries and amputations.
Responsibilities
- Apply engineering principles in the research and development of orthopedic devices during prolonged field care scenarios.
- Conduct research studies aimed at improving the function and quality of life for patients with traumatic extremity injuries, including limb loss.
- Initiate original research through research grant proposals and formulation of research protocols under the direction of Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE) leadership.
- Perform complex research, integrating, and consolidating the work of co-investigators and colleagues through insight, analysis, and interpretation.
- Provide scientific training and mentorship to physicians, clinicians, clinical researchers, scientists, technicians, students and other stakeholders within the EACE.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience publishing research findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals and those articles be related to the development of medical devices and/or the biomechanics of human movement. Experience in the research and development of medical devices via the application of engineering principles.
This position is open to US Citizens that are capable of obtaining a Secret security clearance.
This position will be in the Military Performance Laboratory. A video describing the lab may be found here:
A video describing the CFI as a whole may be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ac9Kg78SLQ
More information about the EACE may be found here:
Application pointers for the Department of Defense
Applying to a federal job is a structured process.
Be sure you follow all of the instructions.
Be sure your packet is complete.
Assume nothing is optional.
https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/app...at-to-include/
Search the web for additional pointers.
Be sure to include pdfs of your transcripts showing the classes you've taken and the degrees you've earned.
Be patient!
This will be an extremely unique opportunity for someone to be at the center of orthosis/exoskeleton development projects that represents a complete paradigm shift in orthotic treatments and enable our Service Members to remain mobile after severe extremity trauma on the battlefield.
Here’s the background. We do not expect to have air superiority in future conflicts (google, “US Army Multi-Domain Operations” for more). This means medical evacuation times will be drastically increased from hours to days and this creates a situation termed, “prolonged field care”. In addition, unit mobility will be key for survival. Therefore, we need to develop solutions to get our wounded up and moving during these prolonged field care scenarios or they may not survive.
Development of technologies and solutions to address high energy trauma in austere environments is a high priority for the Dept. of Defense. Throughout the past year, we have been actively pursuing ways we can raise to this challenge. These efforts have recently come to fruition and we are now retooling the lab and our personnel to accomplish this. This GS13 engineering position will be at the center of several parallel development projects all focused to find exoskeleton solutions to enable our Service Members to stay mobile after major extremity injury.
Link for more information and to apply:
About the Position: Position is located at the Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE), Research and Surveillance Division, Center for The Intrepid (CFI), Fort Sam Houston, Texas conducting research studies aimed at improving the function and quality of life for patients with traumatic extremity injuries, including limb loss.
This position will support the EACE’s mission to; advance medical and scientific knowledge through relevant research that will optimize clinical care and quality of life for Service members and Veterans with traumatic extremity injuries and amputations.
Responsibilities
- Apply engineering principles in the research and development of orthopedic devices during prolonged field care scenarios.
- Conduct research studies aimed at improving the function and quality of life for patients with traumatic extremity injuries, including limb loss.
- Initiate original research through research grant proposals and formulation of research protocols under the direction of Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE) leadership.
- Perform complex research, integrating, and consolidating the work of co-investigators and colleagues through insight, analysis, and interpretation.
- Provide scientific training and mentorship to physicians, clinicians, clinical researchers, scientists, technicians, students and other stakeholders within the EACE.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience publishing research findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals and those articles be related to the development of medical devices and/or the biomechanics of human movement. Experience in the research and development of medical devices via the application of engineering principles.
This position is open to US Citizens that are capable of obtaining a Secret security clearance.
This position will be in the Military Performance Laboratory. A video describing the lab may be found here:
A video describing the CFI as a whole may be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ac9Kg78SLQ
More information about the EACE may be found here:
Application pointers for the Department of Defense
Applying to a federal job is a structured process.
Be sure you follow all of the instructions.
Be sure your packet is complete.
Assume nothing is optional.
https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/faq/app...at-to-include/
Search the web for additional pointers.
Be sure to include pdfs of your transcripts showing the classes you've taken and the degrees you've earned.
Be patient!