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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Posted Date
02/21/2024
Salary Range: $28.04 - 45.11 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
12829

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Join our dynamic team at UCLA's Brain Tumor Imaging Laboratory! We're on the lookout for a proactive Research Associate to play a pivotal role in managing and coordinating the logistical and administrative aspects of our groundbreaking research projects. 

Responsibilities will encompass:
  • Data retrieval, management, and curation across multiple neuroimaging studies
  • Creation and organization of standard operation protocols. 
  • Develop, test, and maintain image processing pipelines
  • Process both clinical and research-related neuroimaging datasets
  • Conduct thorough literature reviews and provide crucial support for ongoing research endeavors. 
Apply now if you're passionate about advancing neuroimaging research and thrive in a collaborative environment.

Salary: $28.04 - $45.11 hourly

Job Qualifications

Required: 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field such as Biomedical Physics, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related biological/physical science field.
  • Working knowledge of modern, structured programming/scripting languages (MATLAB, Python, C++, etc.) and development tools.
  • Experience in human and/or animal imaging using diffusion MRI, perfusion MRI, MR spectroscopy, CEST, or other imaging techniques.
  • Knowledge of MR-related hardware, software, and analysis techniques.
  • Experience in imaging data management.
  • Be able to use dedicated pipelines for specific processing (e.g. Bash or python pipelines containing FSL, Freesurfer, AFNI, R, MATLAB, Osirix, or SPM scripts).
  • Knowledge of Unix and Linux operating system.
  • 1+ years experience in medical image processing, generating high quality multimodal neuroimages, and quantitative analysis.
  • Experience with software source control (e.g. GIT, Subversion).
  • Ability to use computer software for word processing, data tabulation, and graphing.
  • Excellent communication skills to interact with other researchers, clinicians, technicians, and engineers.
  • Demonstrated skill in problem solving, prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Strong interpersonal skills for interaction to communicate diplomatically and effectively with faculty, peers, patients, physicians, collaborators, researchers, administrators, and University faculty and staff.