Postdoctoral Associate Imaging Platform

Impact the discovery of new disease therapies in the Cimini laboratory at the Imaging Platform.
Join our vibrant world-class nonprofit biomedical research center the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard!

This position is an opportunity for biologists with strong interest and some experience in image analysis to develop deeper skills through many different individual projects as well as by supporting thousands of researchers around the world who are accomplishing great things with our labs open-source software CellProfiler and our deep learning-based tools in development. Quantitative image analysis is an under-served need in the biological community and our group loves both creating the tools to make it easier to do and training researchers to do it well. The selected candidate will be trained over 3-4 years to develop their image analysis data science and project management skills; their major duties will be split between creating image analysis educational materials while also advancing important biomedical projects around the globe. Graduates will be well-suited for positions providing or leading image analysis services for a central microscopy facility in academia or the biotech/pharma industry. Your work will have two main dimensions:
- Deep impact on important biomedical research projects: Develop image analysis solutions working in-depth with brilliant biomedical researchers to push forward the boundaries of what can be extracted from high-throughput imaging experiments. We collaborate with dozens of biomedical research laboratories to identify disease states potential therapeutics and gene functions from microscopy images.
- Broad impact supporting the bioimage analysis community: Create image analysis educational materials for online courses and remotely coordinate flipped classroom educational workshops at sites around the US. Support biologists worldwide by answering questions about CellProfiler and other tools we create at our popular online forum. Deliver educational workshops (including travel if desired) on image analysis and open-source software tools.

Requirements

-0 years of post-graduate experience
- Ph.D. in biology with strong knowledge of a variety of biological areas of research
- Significant experience with microscopy and some experience with image analysis on biological assays
- A personality that is helpful professional highly organized and goal-oriented efficiently juggling projects and competing demands while tracking time spent on each task and monitoring deliverables
- Able to clearly communicate with biology collaborators about project aims and results and with software engineers on the team about image processing and software needs
- Interest in creating educational materials and sharing the things they learn with a wide online audience
- Useful but not required: CellProfiler expertise programming experience (e.g. Python) practical experience with machine learning and experience with Linux cloud computing and bioinformatics/statistics tools (e.g. R).

About us:

Our labs mission is to uncover biological knowledge by developing advanced methods to quantify and mine the rich information present in images. We love working as a team towards scientific goals: discovering the inner workings of biological systems and influencing patient treatment. We love making open-source software that impacts the world. We are conscientious and enjoy a professional no-fuss environment and are passionate about what we do while frowning on workaholism.