Image Processing and Analysis Engineer
Merge Labs3 days ago
Base Salary
$185k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop image-based methods and scan strategies to locate wells and match brain imaging planes for repeatable probe positioning.
- Build workflows for object and peak detection, background subtraction, drift correction, and response metrics such as rise and fall times.
- Develop and validate image-registration methods for reconstructed image series and for aligning ultrasound images with MRI and other anatomical references.
- Define metrics and acceptance criteria with scientists, including accuracy, repeatability, and failure conditions.
- Validate analysis methods using reference measurements, controls, and regression tests while assessing signal preservation and repeatability.
- Maintain tested and documented Python tools for independent use by scientists.
- Integrate analysis methods with acquisition and reconstruction workflows and optimize runtime and memory usage for large image datasets.
Requirements
- Experience developing or substantially improving quantitative image-analysis workflows used by others.
- Strong practical image-processing and spatial-reasoning skills, including detection and image registration.
- Sound numerical and signal-processing judgment regarding sampling, filtering, and correction effects on measured responses.
- Strong scientific Python skills and experience maintaining tested, documented software.
- Practical judgment about runtime and memory use in image-analysis workflows.
- Disciplined validation practices and honest reporting of uncertainty, limitations, and failures.
- Experience translating ambiguous scientific requests into useful workflows with end users.
- Useful preferred experience includes multimodal image registration, MRI alignment, ultrasound or microscopy, image-guided experimental automation, GPU or distributed image processing, scientific visualization, learned image-analysis methods, Bazel, and AI tools or agents for scientific software development.
Tech Stack
BazelPython
Categories
Data Science
About Merge Labs
Merge Labs is a privately held research lab developing high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces that integrate with advanced AI to augment human capability. It builds experimental platforms and automated pipelines across molecular engineering, synthetic biology, neuroscience, advanced microscopy, sequencing, and mammalian cell culture to accelerate BCI R&D. Founded in 2025, the company focuses on safe, accessible neurotechnology rather than commercial products today.