Imaging Data Engineer

Key responsibilities

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Within the overall direction of the programme, the group, the remit of the project and in discussion with the Group Leader, you will make a significant input into determining the direction of the project within a three-year lifespan. 

To plan your own work and objectives on a 12-month basis and manage your experimental work within the project along with your supervisor.

To work with limited supervision to identify, develop, modify and apply the necessary techniques to achieve the goals of the project.

To introduce and apply new techniques across a wide range of disciplines and to have the creativity and initiative to develop novel approaches and methods where required.

To ensure the research is carried out in accordance with good practice and in compliance with local policies and legal requirements.

To contribute to the smooth running of the group, including the effective use of resources, training of others and taking responsibility for use of communal facilities.

To enhance your research and generic skills through a tailored development programme. 

Working relationships: 

You will report to Dr Sven Truckenbrodt and will interact and collaborate with other Postdoctoral Scientists, Research Support staff and students, not only in your group, but also across the LMB and with external groups as necessary.

Additional information:

This is a three-year training and development position for a Postdoctoral Scientist who has recently completed studies, is moving into a new research discipline or has limited experience of key transferable skills. We support Postdoctoral Scientists with a range of formal and on-the-job training, including:
• MRC training courses.
• External training and personal development courses.
• One-to-one training with your supervisor and other Scientists.

You will commit to undertaking the following:
• Developing and following a personal development plan.
• Attending training courses.
• Identifying additional training which will support you to develop your career.

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Academic qualifications:

A Master’s degree in neuroscience, molecular biology, biotechnology or a related discipline, or due to complete in 6 months.

Technical skills and expertise:

Essential
• Experience working with programming tools, Python. You have built and deployed your own projects using these tools.
• Some experience processing and handling imaging data, including stitching of overlapping imaging frames and registration of offset data volumes.
• Familiarity with data formats used in multidimensional array processing, such as Zarr.
• Proficient in Linux and Windows operating environments.

Desirable
• Experience with connectomics datasets, including morphological segmentations.
• Experience with biological data analysis and able to communicate fluently with biologists about biological problems.
• Experience with or excited about learning about information design principles for effective data presentation to show complex brain mapping data in a way that can be easily parsed by humans.
• Experience with processing and handling large (tens to hundreds of TB) datasets.
• Experience with high-performance and cluster computing.
• Experience with RAID data storage systems.
• Familiar with software tools used for microscopy image processing, such as ImageJ, FIJI, and MATLAB.

Track record of research:

You can present evidence of successfully executing research or tool development projects independently or evidence of contributing to the success of such projects. This evidence can be in the form of scientific manuscripts, references, public projects, data or tool repositories ( GitHub), or any other relevant evidence.