# Physiology and Nutrition Research Intern

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: San Diego, CA
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $57,850.00 - $104,575.00
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Leidos Performance and Readiness Division under the Health Sector currently has an opening for a Physiology and Nutrition Research Intern to work within the Naval Health Research Center’s Warfighter Performance Department Food Utilization and Energy Laboratory (FUEL) Research Team.

As a Physiology and Nutrition Research Intern, you will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a field-based research setting on a military site, working on projects that aim to improve the health and performance of warfighters and military personnel.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Support recruitment of active duty, wounded warrior, and civilian subjects for human subject’s research protocols; conduct pre-screening and meetings to obtain informed consent abiding by human-use approved principles

- Follow human-use Institutional Review Board protocols and procedures for government research studies

- Operate laboratory equipment; follow standard operating procedure documents for equipment; keep equipment secure

- Interact with and collect physiological, biological, cognitive, and health data from human subjects, abiding by human research protection regulations

- Conduct experimental preparation, testing and data collection, and organization in field and laboratory settings

- Support data management and data analysis under the direction of research leads

- Regularly and effectively communicate with project leads and principal investigators

- Complete required compliance training on time

- Model Leidos Values always

**Basic Qualifications**

- High School Diploma or equivalent - Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in nutrition, biology, physiology, exercise science, psychology, or a related scientific field from an accredited college or university

- Proven ability to read, comprehend, and follow research protocols and instructions set forth by principal investigators and team leads

- An ability to work cooperatively in a team setting

- Ability to work non-regular hours (e.g., nights and weekends) as needed for data collection

- Ability to work professionally and respectfully with military service members

- Ability to perform human subjects’ data collection from an active-duty military population undergoing training and operations while not inhibiting or otherwise negatively impacting those training and operations procedures

**US Citizenship required. Must be able to obtain and maintain a SECRET government security clearance.**

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Pursuing a master’s degree is a plus

- Any school experience with dietetics internship or equivalent education and experience

- Any school experience conducting research with a military population

- Active Interim or Secret clearance is a plus

The pay range for this position is $57,850.00 - $104,575.00.

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## Skills

### Required
- nutrition
- biology
- physiology
- exercise science
- psychology

### Nice to have
- master's degree
- dietetics internship
- research with military population

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