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Princeton University Hiring for Software Developer at Princeton, NJ Full Time

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Overview:

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

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years experience or more in computer science, computational biology, or physics/earth science/engineering or related discipline.
  • Programming in one or more of the following: Python/MATLAB, Linux, and web
  • Experience with large data sets (i.e. earth science, astronomy, medical imaging) and/or SQL
  • Experience with computer-controlled hardware
  • Version control with github
  • Ability to express ideas and collaborate with users with less- computational backgrounds
This position is subject to the University’s background check policy
Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

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

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  • Job Title: Princeton University Hiring for Software Developer at Princeton, NJ