Machine Learning Engineer/ Postdoctoral Fellow

Society for Neuroscience - Boston, MA

Part-time - Entry Level

Boston, MA

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About the position

The Machine Learning Engineer/Postdoctoral Fellow position at the Brain Trauma Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, focuses on applying computational and machine learning methods to study the effects of seizures and abnormal brain activity in pigs with cortical impact. The role involves developing algorithms for data analysis, mentoring research staff, and collaborating with other labs to advance research in neurology.

Responsibilities

• Creating or applying methods for automatic classification or regression on large data
• Software development and code management
• Data wrangling of biological, instrumental, or technical data
• Guiding a team on computational tasks and helping oversee research staff
• Problem solving and troubleshooting of technical problems for research staff
• Management of a large physiological database, warehouse, and/or repository
• Development of algorithms and maintaining a software pipeline
• Collaborate and interface with personnel from other research laboratories
• Documenting steps for reproducing results
• Outlining desired milestones for research staff so that objectives can be met
• Generate reports of statistical analysis
• Prepare and submit research manuscripts and abstracts
• Provide weekly updates on data processing, analysis or other research progress
• Present at lab meetings, and at local and national meetings
• Data annotation, storage, and management
• Communicating concepts in a helpful way to those that are not computer scientists

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required; Master's and/or PhD preferred in a relevant discipline such as computer science, math, computer engineering, statistics, cognitive science, electrical engineering, bioengineering, data science, etc.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience required
• Knowledge of some Computer Science/Engineering concepts required

Benefits

• Salary commensurate with experience