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BRAIN CoGS is a lively community spanning half a dozen leading laboratories that collaborate to study how brain circuits generate working memory and decision-making. This project is supported by the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Experimental methods include two-photon, three-photon, and light-sheet microscopy; optogenetics; deep-brain imaging and many-electrode recording;

transsynaptic circuit tracing; GFP-based probes of brain circuit activity; and machine learning. Related staff to this position are being hired to support a variety of data-intensive tasks, including full connectome reconstruction and fast animal pose estimation with deep neural networks.

The software developer will build a behavioral and neural data management system. The completed product will be a flexible coding framework in which experimenters can write software that will run behavioral experiments of various types and which will store the resulting experimental data in a common database. This position will contribute to cutting-edge Neuroscience research and push the frontier of large-scale data science.

The term of this appointment is one year, with the possibility of renewal based upon satisfactory performance and funding.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities Include:

• Documentation of this framework as it is developed
• Support for scientists in the BRAIN CoGS community
• Maintaining and adapting the system according to evolving research needs
• Development, in frequent consultation with experimenters, of a software framework for conducting neuroscience experiments
• Database curation and analysis

Qualifications

• Experience with large data sets (i.e. earth science, astronomy, medical imaging) and/or SQL
• Experience with computer-controlled hardware
• Programming in one or more of the following: Python/MATLAB, Linux, and web
• Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years experience or more in computer science, computational biology, or physics/earth science/engineering or related discipline.
• Ability to express ideas and collaborate with users with less- computational backgrounds
• Version control with github

This position is subject to the University's background check policy

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Standard Weekly Hours

36.25

Eligible for Overtime

No

Benefits Eligible

Yes

Essential Services Personnel (see Policy For Detail)

No

Physical Capacity Exam Required

No

Valid Driver’s License Required

No

Experience Level

Associate