# Staff Scientist

Job Family: ScientistTravel Required: None Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public TrustWe are currently searching for a Staff Scientist to provide senior-level bench expertise and scientific leadership, while remaining responsive to related laboratory needs and evolving programmatic priorities within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is a full-time, on-site opportunity in Bethesda, MD. What You Will Do: Investigate genetic modifiers and biological mechanisms influencing disease severity and clinical outcomes. Apply cellular biology, molecular biology, immunology, and bioinformatics methods to study red blood cell dysfunction, acute pain, and inflammation. Identify and evaluate biomarkers for monitoring disease processes and treatment response. Conduct preclinical studies using animal models, primarily mice, to assess disease mechanisms and investigational therapies. Integrate genotype-phenotype analyses with clinical, laboratory, imaging, and diagnostic data to characterize disease manifestations and identify therapeutic targets. Evaluate drugs and experimental compounds in preclinical and clinical research to reduce hemoglobin polymerization, improve red blood ce

- **Id**: 4098828
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-staff-scientist-4>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bethesda, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T21:22:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:40:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6113
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Management Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 4179
- **Name**: Guidehouse
- **Domain**: guidehouse.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/guidehouse>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 142
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.761
- **Repost share**: 0.028
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 98000
- **Max**: 163000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 163000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T21:22:05Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 63 · green card filings: 27; Filings 12m: 63

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 163000
- **Is top pay**: no

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