Staff Scientist

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Conducts experiments to verify new detector and PET developments in the R&D team. Researches trends and developments in a defined technology area and derives respective suggestions to R&D Management.

Join our team now at Siemens Healthineers as a Staff Detector Scientist.

This is a role well suited to an ambitious professional, looking for the next step in their career. As a Staff Detector Scientist, you will be responsible for:

• Demonstrating project leadership in next generation Positron Emission Tomography (PET) detector research and development projects and be an interface between technology suppliers (sensors, academics, and collaborators) and internal researchers supporting the technology/ innovation roadmap of the PET detector team.
• Contributing to feasibility and improvement studies throughout the complete product lifecycle:
  • high-level design
  • concept research
  • simulation
  • prototype evaluation
  • performance testing
  • system integration testing
  • manufacturing launch and product sustaining
• Supporting our hardware innovation development at all levels within the detector development: Optics, sensors, scintillators, ASICs, analog electronics, and digital electronics.
• Ensuring the transfer of technologies into product solutions by working closely with other R&D teams and product management.
• Protecting innovations with invention disclosures You will take part at the knowledge exchange with our R&D team to improve and further develop our products and software solutions.

This position may suit you best if you are familiar with what is below, and would like to do develop your career with Healthineers:

• A solid understanding of PET detector electronics and physics and can translate functional requirements into efficient working designs.
• Excellent hand-on laboratory skills and a passion for experimental work with a high level of detail
• Experience in analog/digital electronics design and can master multiple programming languages including FPGA and microcontroller programming.
• Strong computer skills to do efficient data processing, analysis and documentation.
• Experience with PET and other imaging modalities (CT/MR).
• Thrive in a virtual and fast-paced environment and can collaborate effectively with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Have an outstanding ability to work independently, be creative, and overcome obstacles

Required skills to have for the success of this role:

• Ph.D. in biomedical /electrical engineering, physics or related experimental field.
• Minimum of 3 to 8 years of experience in a research environment in one of these experimental fields: PET, SPECT, radiation detector development, radiation physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, or related field.
• Willing to travel both internationally and domestically for customer visits and conferences.

Who we are: We are a team of more than 73,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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The annual base pay for this position is:

Min $97,100 - Max $145,600

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, e