Image Processing and Analysis Engineer
Merge Labs1 month 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 registration methods for reconstructed image series and align ultrasound images with MRI and other anatomical references.
- Define accuracy, repeatability, and failure criteria with scientists and rigorously validate methods using reference measurements, controls, and regression tests.
- Maintain tested and documented Python tools for independent scientist use.
- Integrate analysis with acquisition and reconstruction workflows while optimizing runtime and memory use 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.
- Preferred experience includes multimodal registration aligned to MRI, ultrasound, microscopy, scientific imaging, image-guided automation, GPU or distributed image processing, scientific visualization, learned image-analysis methods, production-quality scientific software, Bazel, and AI tools or agents for scientific software.
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.