Senior Research Associate I
Senior Research Associate I
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22-06-2025
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1 Vacancy
Posted on :
22-06-2025
Job Description
About Us
Design Interactive Inc. is an innovative leader in human performance-enhancing technology that supports industries including military first responders and medical personnel. We specialize in augmented reality (AR) virtual reality (VR) artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven training solutions to enhance decision-making training and operational performance. Our team is dedicated to advancing human performance through cutting-edge technology and research helping organizations achieve greater efficiency safety and effectiveness.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees feel valued and respected. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
Purpose of Position:
Perform functions to support project activities and associated tasks as related to research and development efforts. Design and manage field work assignments. Manage certain project
Primary Responsibilities:
Experience:Minimum 6 yrs experience conducting in human factors research and development cognitive task analysis and gathering user-centered requirements from observational data
Travel:
Position requires a minimum amount of local overnight and extended travel.
Physical Functions/Environment:
Position requires a moderate to high amount of local overnight and extended travel.
Physical requirements involve performing general office activities.
What We Offer:
Primary Responsibilities:
- Act as business field team lead; build end user relationships and identify transition customers; Execute projects that lead to follow-on work.
- Manage potentially complex projects; use SOW and estimating techniques to forecast tasking and create project schedules; manage project budgets
- Develop research plan and convey results.
- Plan and conduct human factors research and end user evaluations of interactive systems/product concepts analyze data and document evaluation methods; create tables charts figures etc. and support interpretation of data for technical report and manuscript publication.
- Prepare technical reports summaries and quantitative analyses of assigned research projects.
- Contribute to writing manuscripts for publications
- Research literature related to specific projects or proposals.
- Maintain current knowledge of the evolving field of Human Factors including critical topic areas (e.g. perceptual skills decision making situational awareness neurophysiology cognitive modeling leadership critical thinking culture emotion trust multimodal interaction team performance usability etc.) methodologies and tools as they relate to DIs practice areas of Performance Assessment Training Systems Cognitive Readiness and Next Generation Human Systems Integration.
- Lead knowledge elicitation sessions with subject manager experts.
- Translate user needs into detailed requirements specifications and design documents ensuring requirements are properly represented and the appropriate level of user participation is achieved.
- Manage risk by identifying quantifying and monitoring potential threats to the project.
- Develop Statement of Work for winning bid proposals; provide task breakdown and schedule estimates to support proposal cost creation.
- Promote products and services at various customer locations and functions.
- Can be designated as a Lead assuming responsibility for managing coordinating and monitoring all or a subset of projects within an R&D portfolio.
- Lead is awarded to qualifying candidates who have demonstrated excellence in strategic planning project management customer relations and team supervision and mentoring.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Requires excellent oral and written communication skills
- Requires ability to express ideas clearly and logically
- Requires good interpersonal skills including ability to work independently within a structured team prioritize tasks show considerable initiative resolve conflicts and handle complaints
- Requires ability to work as a team member
- Requires excellent planning and organizational skills
- Requires detail orientation and attention; must be able to keep accurate and complete records and logs
- Requires solid understanding of human factors techniques such as customer needs identification human performance assessment knowledge acquisition user/workplace profiles task analysis scenario development user centered design and evaluation system engineering system requirements engineering experimental design and statistical data analysis designing and conducting usability tests among others
- Requires solid understanding of the theories principals and data associated with human performance capabilities and limitations (perceptual cognitive motor and neural) and instructional design. Ability to apply this knowledge to the design requirements definition and evaluation of interactive systems
- Requires ability to use appropriate human factors techniques to work with end users to determine end user behavior preferences and usage models and integrate these into requirements specification and design documents
- Requires proficiency in Windows and Microsoft Office including but not limited to word processing spreadsheet design and maintenance and creating presentations
Experience:Minimum 6 yrs experience conducting in human factors research and development cognitive task analysis and gathering user-centered requirements from observational data
Travel:
Position requires a minimum amount of local overnight and extended travel.
Physical Functions/Environment:
Position requires a moderate to high amount of local overnight and extended travel.
Physical requirements involve performing general office activities.
What We Offer:
- A real pathway for contributing meaningful work that supports military readiness and saves lives.
- Empowerment and autonomy to perform impactful work with tangible results.
- Flexible 9/80 work schedule where employees work 80 hours over nine days instead of ten.
- Ten paid holidays (and one additional floating holiday) throughout the year.
- Paid Time Off (first year prorated depending on start date)
- Retirement Savings Plan with 401k match opportunity
- Benefits including elective Medical Dental Vision and Short-Term Disability coverage.
- Company paid Basic Life Insurance AD&D Long-term Disability and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees feel valued and respected. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds experiences and abilities including those from underrepresented communities in technology.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
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