Research Psychologist: PTSD, Sleep & Physio (Part-Time)

NCIRE; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 66,000 - 102,000; Part time

Job summary

NCIRE, affiliated with the San Francisco VA Health Care System, seeks a Research Psychologist to collaborate across PTSD/trauma, sleep, fear learning, and TBI studies. The role focuses on methods and team science, supporting in-lab and remote psychophysiology, and translating multimodal data into publishable findings and grants.

The position is part-time and intermittent, with responsibilities spanning study design, psychophysiology operations, analysis strategies, scholarly output, and grant

Qualifications

• PhD/PsyD in clinical psychology or closely related field.
• Demonstrated research productivity and strong quantitative/writing skills.
• Experience in psychophysiology and/or mechanistic clinical/translational research (PTSD/trauma, sleep, fear learning, TBI).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on study design: refine aims, endpoints, and mechanistic models; co-develop experimental paradigms (e.g., fear conditioning/extinction).
• Lead psychophysiology operations: develop SOPs; train staff/trainees; oversee quality control for acquisition and scoring.
• Guide analysis strategy: build/oversee preprocessing and feature extraction pipelines; integrate physiology with clinical and sleep outcomes; partner with statisticians/data scientists as needed.
• Scholarly output: co-lead manuscripts, abstracts, and conference presentations; write clear, reproducible methods.
• Grant support: contribute to mechanistic aims and measurement/analysis sections for pilot and multi-site proposals.
• Mentorship & team science: participate in lab meetings; mentor trainees in psychophysiology methods and scientific writing.

Skills

Quantitative writing

Statistical thinking

Education

PhD/PsyD in clinical psychology

Tools

R

Python

MATLAB

Job description

NCIRE, affiliated with the San Francisco VA Health Care System, seeks a Research Psychologist to collaborate across PTSD/trauma, sleep, fear learning, and TBI studies. The role focuses on methods and team science, supporting in-lab and remote psychophysiology, and translating multimodal data into publishable findings and grants.

The position is part-time and intermittent, with responsibilities spanning study design, psychophysiology operations, analysis strategies, scholarly output, and grant