Senior Neuroimaging Engineer - Radiology

Scheduled Hours

40

Position Summary

Performs innovative data analysis and/or data management expertly using statistical packages and machine learning tools. Assists investigators and supervises students and technicians in the design of experiments, clinical trials, and epidemiological studies. May be required to assume major responsibility on large project.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• High level data analysis.
• Perform advanced analyses on neuroimaging data (structural MR/fMRI/PET).
• Supervises staff, students and post docs in the use of neuroimaging processing, analysis and viewing tools and psychological testing tools.
• Hardware management.
• Manage and maintain the shared stimulus presentation and subject response monitoring equipment.
• Evaluate and/or design new hardware to facilitate implementation of new experiments on the MR scanners.
• Prepare documentation on usage of the hardware and assist staff, students and post docs in usage of the equipment.
• Software development.
• Design new analysis pipelines for neuroimaging data.
• Develop and modify psychological testing tools.
• Software maintenance.
• Resolve technical issues with data collection, processing and analysis.
• MR data acquisition.
• Optimize MR pulse sequence files used for acquiring MR data.

Working Conditions

Job Location/Working Conditions

• Normal office environment.

Physical Effort

• Typically sitting at desk or table.
• Repetitive wrist, hand or finger movement.

Equipment

• Office equipment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing and training staff.
• A master's degree with relevant experience or a higher degree in quantitative field, such as Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computational Neuroscience, Applied Mathematics, Biostatistics, and related field.
• Strong computational analytical skills, computer skills (knowledge of Python, Python libraries, Matlab, statistical analysis packages, shell scripting, experience in Unix/Linux platform), knowledge of machine learning methods and eager to learn new machine learning methods, will be required.
• Fluency in standard computer programming languages (MATLAB, Python, C/C++, java, csh, bash), statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, R), psychological testing tools (Eprime, psychtoolbox) and neuroimaging software packages (FSL, SPM, FreeSurfer, AFNI and 3D Slicer).
• Demonstrated ability to create complex analysis routines within reasonable timeframes.
• Willingness and ability to make programs useful for researchers with varying levels of computer skills.
• Applicant must have excellent communication skills and be adept at interacting with individuals from a wide range of research labs in Neurology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Radiology and Neuroscience.
• Ability to design new hardware and modify existing hardware for the presentation of auditory and visual stimuli and the recording of vocal and motor responses.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline and a minimum of five years of experience in a similar research lab or comparable environment.

Grade

G13

Salary Range

$65,900.00 - $112,700.00 / Annually

The salary range reflects base salaries paid for positions in a given job grade across the University. Individual rates within the range will be determined by factors including one's qualifications and performance, equity with others in the department, market rates for positions within the same grade and department budget.

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