Lead Scientific Software Engineer, MoBI

Child Mind Institute, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 97,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k)

Paid parental leave

Dependent care

Discounted tickets and entertainment

Job summary

Child Mind Institute, Inc. seeks a Lead Scientific Software Engineer for MoBI in New York, NY. The role focuses on technical leadership, architecture, and pipeline development across MRI, EEG, and ecological assessments, with four+ days in the NYC office.

You will mentor engineers, ensure engineering excellence, and deliver scalable software for mental health research while collaborating with clinical teams and data scientists.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in MoBI modalities (MRI/EEG/physiological measures/eye-tracking or related tasks).
• Ability to lead architecture design and mentor teams.
• Experience with Unix/Linux HPC environments and data pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of image and signal processing and ML applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead MoBI's technical architecture, standards, and best practices with strategic roadmap for Core pipelines.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, QC, and analysis workflows for MRI/EEG and related data.
• Mentor team members and drive code quality, reviews, and documentation.
• Contribute to scalable, well-documented code repositories and public distribution.
• Collaborate with clinical and scientific teams on software and data science needs.

Skills

MoBI data modalities

Technical leadership

Unix/Linux environments

Image and signal processing

Data analysis and ML

Technical standards & best practices

Education

PhD in relevant field

Tools

GitHub / version control

Job description

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Lead Scientific Software Engineer, MoBI

Full Time New York, NY, US

Salary Range: $96,647.00 To $159,001.00 Annually

About Child Mind Institute

We're dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need. We've become the leading independent nonprofit in children's mental health by providing gold-standard evidence-based care, delivering educational resources to millions of families each year, training educators in underserved communities, and developing tomorrow's breakthrough treatments.

As part of the Research, Strategic Data Initiatives team, you will report to Research, Strategic Data Initiatives. You will be responsible for MoBI's technical architecture, standards, and best practices while providing technical leadership and project-level guidance. This role will establish technical direction, mentor team members, and ensure engineering excellence across all MoBI development efforts. The Lead Scientific Software

Developer will develop and maintain multiple scientific software packages, pipelines, and web based applications for use in mental health research and use a range of laboratory methods across projects, including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrophysiology (EEG), physiological measures (e.g., actigraphy, heart rate, respiration), computer-based tasks, eye tracking, and ecological assessments. This is an exempt, full- time position requiring a minimum of four (4) days per week in the office located in our NYC headquarters office.

You Will:

• Manage MoBI's technical architecture, standards, and best practices; providing technical

leadership and project-level guidance and defining and maintaining technical strategy and

roadmap for MoBI Core pipelines and infrastructure.

• Develop and implement pipelines for collection, quality control, and analysis of data for
• Specify analytic requirements for experiments to establish usability and validity of

software pipelines.

• Program tasks, software pipelines, data visualization tools, and machine learning or data

science utilities for a variety of scientific use cases.

• Contribute to effective, scalable, well-documented code, and share code to GitHub, or

equivalent, repositories for version control, leading code review processes and establish

quality standards for team deliverables

• Write documentation and relevant text for scientific, clinical, or public distribution of

knowledge.

• Mentor team members on technical approaches, best practices and professional

development and act as the internal resource to scientific and clinical teams with software

and data science needs at the Child Mind Institute and collaborating centers.

• Perform additional job-related duties as assigned.

You Have:

• PhD in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience in at least one data modality of MoBI: MRI, EEG, physiological measures, eye-tracking, developing computer-based tasks, or ecological assessments.
• Demonstrated capacity for technical leadership including architecture design and team mentorship
• Experience working in Unix/Linux environments on both personal and high-performance computing infrastructures.
• Deep knowledge of image and signal processing.
• Experience developing and applying data analysis and machine learning technologies independently.
• Proven ability to establish technical standards and best practices.

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Our great compensation package and benefits include medical insurance, 401(k), paid parental leave, dependent care, discounted tickets and entertainment perks programs. For more information about our benefits, please visit our employee benefits website .

Pay Range

The salary range for the position is posted. Factors such as candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations affect the salary offered within this range. In addition, this salary may be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state and depending on the role), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

EEO Disclaimer

Child Mind Institute is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind.

Child Mind Institute is dedicated to ensuring accessibility and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation to participate in the application process or perform your job, please contact our HR Department at [e-mail]