Hospital for Special Surgery · 1 day ago
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$72K/yr - $78K/yrHospital for Special Surgery is a top-ranked hospital for orthopedics and rheumatology. They are seeking a Post Doctoral Research Fellow to work in the Biomechanics Department on a project aimed at developing a digital-twin approach to guide ACL injury risk assessment and surgical decision making.
Health CareMedical
Hiring Manager
Adriana V.
Responsibilities
Continue streamlining our computational knee modeling pipeline to rapidly develop and analyze populations of knee models (sample sizes ≥200)
Use GitHub for code storage, management, and version control
Synthesize large, diverse sets of experimental biomechanical and clinical data for model validation, injury risk modelling, and treatment planning
Work closely with statistical experts implementing uncertainty quantification, calibration, and dimensionality reduction methods
Maintain software, licensing, and data storage infrastructure
Provide detailed technical documentation of workflows and findings and unify advancements with those of our knee modeling team
Communicate results of analyses to a diverse group of engineers, surgeons, epidemiologists, statisticians, and therapists through oral presentations at weekly/monthly group meetings
Disseminate findings thorough presentation at national and international conferences and through publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals
Cultivate managerial and leadership skills by training and supervising engineering undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, and orthopaedic residents and fellows, who will participate in research projects
Qualification
Required
PhD in Biomechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent specialty; (exceptional MS-level applicants to be considered)
Exceptional computer programming and scripting skills (MATLAB, Python, C, etc.)
Training in multibody dynamics theory and software (MSC ADAMS, OpenSim)
Experience with CAD and reverse engineering software. E.g., SolidWorks, ProEngineer, GEOMAGICS, and DesignX
Experience in clinical and translational biomechanics research
Exceptional written, spoken, and interpersonal communication skills
Experience in project management and organization
Preferred
Knowledge of applied optimization and statistical techniques (i.e., machine learning)
Training in computer science and software architecture
Experience in experimental biomechanics testing
Graduate course work in statistics including Bayesian methods
Experience coding statistical software (for example: R)
Extensive experience (≥3 yrs an asset) using multibody dynamics software including MSC ADAMS and associated scripting languages
Experience in image processing methods including exposure to commercial packages for 3D reconstruction of medical image data such as MIMICS
Company
Hospital for Special Surgery
Hospital for special surgery is the top ranked new york hospital for orthopedics and rheumatology.
Founded in 1863
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$36.6MKey Investors
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)Flare Capital Partners
2023-06-12Grant· $10M
2022-10-25Series A· $21M
2018-07-16Grant· $5.6M
Leadership Team
Tara M. McCoy
Chief Executive Officer, HSS Florida
Bill Donato
Senior Advisor Supply Chain
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