Associate Director, Engineering Sciences - BioMechanics

Responsibilities

• Design and develop analytical pipelines for the acquisition, synchronization, fusion, and analysis of multimodal wearable and biomechanical sensor data.
• Collect and interpret biomechanical and physiological data from laboratory and real-world environments regarding human gait, locomotion, and motor control.
• Develop algorithms, software tools, and analytical workflows for wearable sensor applications.
• Work extensively with sensing modalities including IMUs, PPG, GSR/EDA, EMG, and wearable force/pressure systems.
• Apply signal processing, sensor fusion, statistical modeling, and AI/ML methodologies (predictive analytics, pattern recognition, and human activity recognition) to complex datasets.
• Support the validation of wearable technologies against laboratory-based gold-standard systems.
• Create technical reports, visualizations, and dashboards to communicate findings to multidisciplinary teams and clients.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Kinesiology, Bioengineering, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong background in human movement analysis, signal processing, and advanced data analytics.
• Experience with wearable biomechanical and physiological sensing technologies.
• Experience conducting or supporting human-subject studies.
• Proficiency in scientific computing and programming using Python, MATLAB, R, or C/C++.
• Experience processing and analyzing large-scale time-series datasets.

About the Company

Secretariat is a diversified international expert services firm with more than 500 professionals in 20+ cities around the globe. We are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters worldwide. Our Engineering Sciences team works at the forefront of complex challenges, analyzing failures and driving performance across industries ranging from industrial facilities to medical devices.