Apprentice Biomedical Forensic Science Jobs in Illinois

The Role:
The Senior Managing Biomechanist leads a team of expert engineering staff in human-injury analysis in vehicular accidents, premises liability and slip-and-fall incidents. Analyses of injury biomechanics may require reconstructing vehicular accidents, slip-and-fall incidents or determination of factors responsible for development of the incident. This position requires extensive experience in forensic biomechanical analyses. This role performs investigations focusing on musculoskeletal biomechanics to determine the relationship between accident modes and injuries, requires evaluation and analysis of biomechanical systems including voluntary and involuntary human motions, assessment of situations leading to the accident, and reconstructing the accidents. The role ideally includes familiarity with legal depositions, working with attorneys and claims adjusters.
Additionally, the ideal candidate has an established network of external clientele and is experienced with building, establishing and maintaining rapport with this network.
This is a fully remote role open to candidates located anywhere in the United States. Candidates located in the listed states are encouraged to apply.
In This Role, You Will:

• Lead a team of experts in conducting detailed inspections of vehicles and accident sites and accurately analyze crash sequences to identify contributing factors and the induced loading on the occupants.
• Use computer models to reconstruct accidents and to measure load and injury levels.
• Support business development efforts by building and maintaining rapport with current clients and generating new work for themselves and a team of experts supporting them.
• Partner with business development representatives, attend conferences and events to promote the company and skills of expert staff.
• Communicate with clients and team regarding scope of work, investigation tasks, budget, and ensures all project completion timelines, deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Ensure workload is evenly distributed amongst experts.
• Mentor, leads and guides a team of experts in all aspects of project work.
• Provide expert testimony at trials, depositions, or other legal proceedings and communicate investigative findings in a manner easily understood by technical or non-technical audiences.
• Inspect and measures vehicles.
• Review various documents to identify relevant information for an accident reconstruction or biomechanical engineering analysis (includes police reports, medical records, depositions, expert reports, legal pleadings and discovery documents, videos, photographs, etc.)
• Perform simulations of vehicular collisions using advanced collision reconstruction software such as PC-Crash, Virtual Crash or HVE (or similar).
• Evaluate the effects of impact forces on occupants as a result of vehicular accidents.
• Determine human injury mechanisms in vehicular accidents and premises liability cases such as slip-and-fall accidents.
• Perform accident reconstructions of single-vehicle rollovers, single-vehicle impacts with fixed objects, and multi-vehicle collisions (frontal, side, rear, and sideswipe).
• Utilize engineering principles to calculate factors such as impact and departure speeds, collision forces, and trajectories of vehicles.
• Compare calculations with crash test reports of similar collisions to correlate damages based on calculated velocities.
• Review papers and journals related to vehicular accident reconstruction to understand and advance the scientific techniques used in reconstruction work.
• Provide written conclusions of findings to assist others in understanding the evidence or in determining the facts at issue.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of experience in biomechanics, accident reconstruction, and premises liability work or similar required.
• Degree in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering required
• PE license, PhD, SAE certification and/or ACTAR certification required
• Demonstrated success establishing clientele and rapport with insurance carriers, lawyers, and adjusters
• Extensive experience providing expert deposition and courtroom testimony
• Advanced proficiency in CAD as applied to accident reconstruction and forensic analysis
• Strong background working with automotive engineering and automotive control systems
• Comfortable operating in a billable, project-based consulting environment
• Experience collaborating with forensic animators to develop high-quality visual exhibits for depositions and trial presentations
• Experience performing, evaluating, and interpreting computer simulations
• Based in (or planning to relocate to) the job location
• Collaborative, team-oriented professional with a commitment to continuous learning and development

Who We Are:
YA is an international professional services organization providing forensic consulting, engineering, risk mitigation, and related services. Founded over 25 years ago as a property damage consulting firm, YA has expanded through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Today, YA has over 700 professionals dedicated to excellence, partnership, and driving innovation.
YA Group's Accident Reconstruction & Biomechanics team applies scientific investigation, engineering principles, and advanced technology to determine how collisions occur and why. Our experts bring extensive training and experience using sophisticated tools-including 3D modeling, vehicle and site inspections, Event Data Recorder downloads, and forensic animations-to analyze physical evidence and reconstruct events with clarity and accuracy. Capable of handling the full spectrum of motor vehicle accidents-from low-speed impacts to complex rollover events, heavy-truck collisions, autonomous vehicle incidents, and ADAS evaluations-our multidisciplinary specialists deliver analytically grounded findings that support clients across insurance, legal, corporate, and transportation sectors. In addition, our professionals are experienced in litigation support and are courtroom-qualified experts, providing clear, confident testimony to effectively communicate reconstruction results and technical conclusions.
What We Offer:

• Employee-focused culture
• Strong commitment to work-life balance
• Remote work
• Flexible vacation & Paid holidays
• Paid family care/sick leave
• Parental leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision + more
• 401k w/match
• Career growth
• Competitive salaries + Bonus

Fraudulent Recruitment Alert:
Please be vigilant against fraudulent recruitment attempts. YA will never ask for personal financial information (such as bank account numbers or identification numbers) via social media or chat-based apps. We also will not request money for the purchase of business equipment, post job opportunities on Craigslist or conduct interviews solely via text message.
All official email communications regarding your application will come from notify@dayforce.com or directly from a member of our talent team using an @yagroup.com domain name.
If you suspect any fraudulent activity, please contact us directly at careers@yagroup.com.
Disclosures:
As part of our recruitment process, we may use AI-assisted tools to support candidate screening and evaluation. These tools are designed to assist-rather than replace-human decision-making, and all employment decisions are made by our recruiting team in accordance with applicable laws and our commitment to equal employment opportunity.
Where required by law, we will provide additional information about the use of these tools, including their purpose, and offer alternative processes or accommodations upon request.