Technical Staff Member - Auditory Research Team

Requisition ID: 24303

Group 48 The Bioengineering Systems and Technologies Group seeks to improve the performance of humancentered missions through preventing injury and disease improving sensing and identification of people and their environment and speeding rehabilitation and recovery. Biomedical research includes advanced sensing algorithms modeling prototyping and field testing of technologies to diagnose disease predict outcomes avoid injuries and monitor and enhance human performance. The Neurocognitive Speech and Hearing research area emphasizes multiscale system analysis with objective measurement and manipulation neurocomputational models for personalized insights and interventions and system architectures to move from lab/clinical to freeliving environments. This work includes the development of tools for enhanced learning and communication cognitive load and stress monitoring brain computer interfaces and neurological disorder characterization. Our highly interdisciplinary team draws on skills from biology biochemistry signal processing engineering computer science physics and medical research areas.

The Bioengineering Systems and Technologies Group is searching for a candidate to join the Auditory Research Team and participate in projects related to noiseinduced hearing injury hearing protection and enhancement spatial audio for augmented and virtual reality and cognitive load. The candidate will assist in developing algorithms for active hearingprotection systems brain computer interfaces and computational models of the auditory pathway as well as data collection and analysis.

Required Skills

Strong signal/image processing background

Familiarity with acoustic/audio signals hearing and psychoacoustics

Familiarity with the neuroscience preferably the neural basis of speech perception and production

Demonstrated ability to program with MATLAB Python and/or C

Statistical analysis capabilities

Desirable Skills

Machine learning (scikitlearn PyTorch Tensorflow)

Experience with the study of impaired and normal hearing

Experience conducting scientific research (thesis or researchrelated work experience)

The candidate should hold an M.S. degree/BS with 5 years experience in Biomedical Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science Speech/Hearing Sciences Cognitive Science or a similar technical field.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age veteran status disability status or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.