Summary

The St-Pierre Lab develops and applies new tools for perturbing and imaging the brain. We develop fluorescent indicators of neural activity (e.g., voltage indicators), light-gated proteins to control neural activity (e.g., optogenetic silencers), photostable fluorescent proteins (e.g., mGold YFP), and genetic circuits to control protein expression (e.g., Equalizers). See our recent publication in Cell that describes an exciting new voltage indicator for recording electrical dynamics in awake behaving mice (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.013). We want to hire a Data Scientist to design advanced microscopy and image analysis software for the life science community. The Data Scientist will create exciting new features to and improve its analysis chops. The Data Scientist will work closely with two other lab members focusing on computational approaches (including machine learning) and with multiple experimentalists. Will have the opportunity to utilize your skills to develop cutting-edge technologies of value to human health while being part of an enjoyable workplace.

Position is hybrid.

Job Duties

• Maintain and develop in-house scientific software
  • Develop or modify code for controlling microscope-based image acquisition
  • Develop or modify code for image analysis for fluorescence microscopy
  • Exemplar tasks include:
    • Create new workflow for a process
    • Adapt existing algorithm to a workflow
    • Modify a workflow for bug fixing, adding or generalizing features
    • Refactor code for simplicity and speed
    • Translate code from one language to another
    • Develop graphical user interface
    • Code review and collaborative editing
    • Benchmark a workflow for speed and anticipate run-time errors
    • Write test cases for a module
    • Write documentation and perform other technical communication
    • Work with team members on programming needs
• Maintain database
• Maintain and develop in-house server for data storage and higher performance computation
• Maintain lab IT infrastructure
• Assist lab members on relevant tasks
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in statistics, science, mathematics or related field.
• Five years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics, Biology or a related field (STEM and quantitative fields in general).
• Experience with MATLAB and/or Python programming (or other object-oriented programming languages such as C++)
• Experience in image processing and image analysis
• Experience in collaborative coding and version control