Research Scientist / Engineer, Functional Ultrasound Imaging
Astera Institute· Neuro
Alameda$120k - $220kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Develop and lead Astera Neuro's volumetric fUSI platform for primates, spanning hardware, experimentation, and computational analysis to enable mesoscale imaging of the primate brain in awake, behaving subjects.
Responsibilities
- Build, validate, and optimize a large-scale volumetric functional ultrasound imaging platform for awake, behaving primates.
- Design and execute multimodal neuroscience experiments combining fUSI with behavioral paradigms and complementary recording and perturbation techniques.
- Develop robust computational pipelines for image reconstruction, preprocessing, registration, quality control, statistical analysis, and visualization.
- Analyze large-scale functional imaging datasets using modern statistical and machine learning approaches.
- Register imaging data across sessions and animals to generate high-resolution anatomical and functional brain atlases.
- Integrate fUSI with electrophysiology and other neural recording and perturbation modalities to create comprehensive maps of brain function.
- Collaborate closely with engineers and software developers to continuously improve imaging hardware and acquisition software.
- Mentor research technicians, and at senior/principal level, more junior scientists and engineers; contribute to hiring, onboarding, and lab culture.
- Publish scientific discoveries using Open Science and FAIR principles, and contribute to open datasets, software, and technical documentation.
Qualifications
- PhD with 4-12+ years of experience in neuroscience, bioengineering, physics, electrical engineering, or related field (equivalent demonstrated expertise considered).
- Experience with in vivo functional ultrasound imaging, or comparable high-resolution neuro imaging technologies.
- Experience designing and executing neuroscience experiments in primates, including awake macaque fMRI.
- Strong scientific programming skills in Python and/or MATLAB.
- Understanding of primate neuroanatomy, image registration, and atlas construction.
- Experience with image reconstruction and signal processing.
- Experience analyzing large-scale imaging, electrophysiology, or multimodal neuroscience datasets, including machine learning or computational neuroscience methods.
- Ability to work closely with software engineers, hardware engineers, and neuroscientists in a fast-moving, multi-team environment.
- Track record of mentorship and technical leadership.
Skills
Required:PythonMATLABIn vivo functional ultrasound imagingprimate neuroscience experimentsImage reconstruction and signal processing
Benefits
- Astera provides a comprehensive benefits package and total compensation competitive with experience and qualifications.
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