Sr. Scientist, MR R&D Collaborations

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This is a role well suited to an ambitious professional, looking for the next step in their career. As a Sr. Scientist of the MR R&D Collaborations team, you will be based at a leading academic institution in Philadelphia, PA, and responsible for:
 

Collaboration Management

• Be the key point of contact on-site for both Siemens and customer. Coordinate appropriately with Siemens Leadership, Applications, Sales, and Service teams.
• Communicate effectively between all stakeholders in the strategic partnership, escalating challenges appropriately.
• Proactively develop strong relationships with a variety of customers at Key Collaboration site
• Identify areas of mutual interest for future collaboration projects that are relevant for academic/industrial partnership, and strategic in nature.
• Develop and manage collaboration projects with your academic partners.
• Adhere to Siemens’ collaborations policies and take ownership of the processes for collaboration management with your assigned partners.
• Develop Academic Industry Partnership grants with your academic partner.
• Drive, define and execute new clinical and research MR and cross modality collaboration projects.

Research and Development

• Collaborate closely with your academic partners to drive MR research and translate this knowledge into MR products.
• Drive the development of novel, clinically relevant techniques (MR pulse sequences and image reconstruction) with our research partners.
• Develop and release prototypes of novel techniques in compliance with highest source code quality.
• Evaluate prototypes and publish results in peer-reviewed journals.
• Conduct original research resulting in patent applications.
• Educate R&D and Applications colleagues on clinical research issues.

Product Development

• Product integration of innovative techniques according to quality standards for medical devices.
• Implementation of improvements to currently existing product features.
• Maintenance and improvements of existing code base, bug fixing, testing.
• Contribute to product protocol development for novel features.

Sales and Marketing Support

• Provide content for articles, abstracts, and marketing materials for Siemens (such as MAGNETOM Flash)
• Look for opportunities to translate clinical and technical knowledge into clinical and business value.
• Support educational meetings, trade shows, and site visits.
• Answer questions from Sales and Marketing related to areas of the team’s responsibility.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of organization's business practices, issues faced and take ownership in finding a resolution of those issues.

Required skills to have for the success of this role

• Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Biomedical Physics / Imaging Physics, or equivalent.
• Exceptional communication skills – in all formats: writing, presentation, verbal.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-moving environment.
• Strong background in MR physics and pulse sequence design.
• Expertise in MR imaging techniques and clinical applications.
• Experience in working with internal and external partners.
• Substantial experience in C++/C software design, implementation, and coding.
• Experience using MATLAB for signal and image processing.
• Excellent teaching skills and a proactive can-do attitude.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize, and take initiative.
• Ability to multi-task and follow through.
• Meticulous and organized.
• Skilled in MS office software applications (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).
• Ability to travel up to 20%.
• Prior experience working on Siemens’ MR systems in pulse sequence design and image reconstruction.
• At least 2 years of relevant clinical and research MRI experience working on the Siemens MRI platform. 

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