Roles and responsibilities

• Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Long term ongoing contract position
• W2 with full benefits
• Some travel may be required

Location:

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Division of Intramural Research
Building 35, Room GA902
Bethesda, MD 20892

Job Description:

• Design, develop, document and test cutting edge software for segmenting neurons using serial electron microscopy images.
• Incorporate available algorithms by evaluating and utilizing any open source modules when appropriate (for example OpenCV, vtk, scikit-image, scikit-learn).
• Research scientific literature and implement published algorithms when code is not readily available using an appropriate language for implementation, most typically scientific Python, Matlab, CIC++, CUDA or Java.
• Contribute to an existing crowd-sourcing web application using Java and Javascript.
• Participate in whiteboard discussions on software design details and code reviews.
• Communicate and document important software design decisions.
• Maintain code repositories with version control software.
• Identify new enhancements, define new requirements, and help maintain already deployed components of the data reconstruction pipeline.

Job Duties:

• Work products and documents related to designing, developing, documenting and testing cutting edge software for segmenting neurons using serial electron microscopy images; incorporate algorithms by evaluating and utilizing open source modules.
• Work products and documents related to researching scientific literature and implementing published algorithms when code is not readily available; use an appropriate language for implementing.
• Work products and documents related to contributing to existing crowd-sourcing web application using Java and Javascript; participate in whiteboard discussions; communicate and document important software design decisions.
• Work products and documents related to maintaining code repositories with version control software; identify new enhancements; define new requirements; help maintain already deployed components of the data reconstruction pipeline.

Requirements:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience or a related discipline.
• Minimum of five (5) years of related experience.
• Experience in software development for image processing, in particular with machine vision or image segmentation.
• Software development experience on Linux-based systems.
• Experience and strong skills with either Matlab or scientific Python programming.
• Experience programming in CIC++.
• Experience optimizing code for speed and memory constraints.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interest in cellular, systems and/or computational neuroscience.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a small development team and also independently.
• Expertise in machine learning.
• Expertise with CUDA and GPU computing architectures.
• Experience programming in applications in Java and with XML, JSON and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with SQL and database applications.
• Scripting experience using shell scripting, PERL, Python, etc.
• Familiarity with cvs and git version control software and repositories.
• Experience working in a lab environment.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a software development team.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and time management skills.

Additional Info:

Number of positions: 1
Location: Bethesda
State: MD
Posting title: Computer Systems Analyst

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