Research Programmer / Software Engineer
Jefferson Health1 day ago
Philadelphia, PA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Rapidly develop and implement behavioral experiments for human memory research.
- Build and optimize software tools for direct brain stimulation studies.
- Develop reproducible preprocessing and analysis pipelines for intracranial EEG data.
- Support computational analyses on high-performance computing clusters.
- Design software systems, testing procedures, and reproducible workflows.
- Prepare software releases and maintain code documentation.
- Troubleshoot servers, file systems, cluster environments, and other computing infrastructure.
- Contribute to neuroscience experiment design and novel analysis methods.
- Collaborate with neuroscientists and clinicians on multidisciplinary research studies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Experience with C++ or willingness to work with and extend existing C++ code.
- Experience working in Linux/Unix computing environments.
- Experience with version control and software environment management tools such as Git, conda, and pip.
- Demonstrated experience completing technical projects or contributing to larger codebases.
- Ability to write clean, well-documented, maintainable, and reusable code.
- Strong independent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience includes neuroscience, psychology, biomedical research, human subjects research, EEG, intracranial EEG, neural time-series analysis, physiological data, scientific Python, software testing, deployment, collaborative development, high-performance computing, SLURM, server-based workflows, scientific data management, computational modeling, simulations, large-scale data analysis, hardware, electronics, or experimental systems integration.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical, prescription, supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, and voluntary benefits.
- Access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full-time service or two years of part-time service.
- Medical and prescription insurance access is available to all colleagues, including less-than-part-time, per diem, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps colleagues.
- Regular employee position on the weekday day shift in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Opportunities for substantial scientific involvement, including co-authorship on publications and participation in study design and data analysis.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Jefferson Health
Jefferson Health is a nonprofit academic health system that operates hospitals, outpatient centers, and telehealth services for patients across Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey. Part of Thomas Jefferson University, it has grown through integrations including Abington, Aria, and a 2021 merger with Einstein Healthcare Network. Headquartered in Philadelphia, it provides tertiary and community care across specialties such as cancer, neuroscience, and orthopedics.