Research Scientist / Engineer, Functional Ultrasound Imaging
Astera InstituteAI Research, company
EmeryvilleLead
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Develops a volumetric fUSI platform for primate brain imaging and analysis.
- •Astera Neuro is seeking a Research Scientist/Engineer to develop its volumetric fUSI platform for primates, working across hardware, experimentation, and computational analysis.
- •This role involves creating advanced tools for mesoscale imaging of the primate brain.
- •Key Responsibilities Build, validate, and optimize a large-scale volumetric functional ultrasound imaging platform for awake, behaving primates.
- •Design and execute multimodal neuroscience experiments combining fUSI with behavioral paradigms and complementary recording techniques.
- •Develop robust computational pipelines for image reconstruction, preprocessing, registration, and analysis of large-scale datasets.
- •Register imaging data to generate high-resolution anatomical and functional brain atlases.
- •Collaborate with engineers and software developers to improve imaging hardware and software.
- •Requirements Experience with in vivo functional ultrasound imaging or comparable high-resolution neuroimaging technologies.
- •Experience designing and executing neuroscience experiments in primates, including awake macaque fMRI.
- •Strong scientific programming skills in Python and/or MATLAB.
- •Understanding of primate neuroanatomy, image registration, and atlas construction.
- •Experience analyzing large-scale imaging or multimodal neuroscience datasets.
Required skills
PythonAWSLinuxGit
Domain expertise
biotechdeeptechhealthcareai
Tech stack
PythonAWSGitLinux