Image-Analysis Engineer for Brain Imaging & AI

Merge; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Merge Labs in San Francisco, CA, invites a skilled engineer to build and maintain a shared image-analysis core that converts image series into reliable measurements across platforms. You will focus on image registration across series and anatomical references, guiding probe positioning and response extraction for screening and in-vivo imaging.

The role emphasizes developing scalable Python tools, validating methods with controls, and optimizing performance for large datasets.

Qualifications

• 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 about sampling, filtering, and correction effects on measurements.
• Strong scientific Python skills and experience maintaining tested, documented software.

Responsibilities

• Develop image-based methods and scan strategies to locate wells and match brain imaging planes for repeatable probe positioning.
• Build analysis workflows for object and peak detection, background subtraction, drift correction, and response metrics (rise/fall times).
• Develop and validate registration methods for reconstructed image series, quantify motion and alignment accuracy.
• Develop registration methods to align ultrasound images with MRI and other references for workflows.
• Agree metric definitions and acceptance criteria with scientists (accuracy, repeatability, failures).
• Rigorously validate analysis methods with reference measurements, controls, and regression tests.
• Improve and maintain tested, documented Python tools for scientists to run independently.
• Integrate analysis methods with acquisition/reconstruction workflows and optimize runtime/memory for large datasets.

Skills

Python

Image processing

Image registration

Software development

Validation

Tools

Bazel

Git

NumPy

Job description

Merge Labs in San Francisco, CA, invites a skilled engineer to build and maintain a shared image-analysis core that converts image series into reliable measurements across platforms. You will focus on image registration across series and anatomical references, guiding probe positioning and response extraction for screening and in-vivo imaging.

The role emphasizes developing scalable Python tools, validating methods with controls, and optimizing performance for large datasets.