Neuroimaging Research Assistant - Hybrid (Lab)

Brigham and Women's Hospital; Somerville (MA); Hybrid; USD 44,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory at Mass General Brigham seeks a Research Assistant to support neuroimaging studies of brain abnormalities linked to psychiatric conditions. You will join a collaborative team spanning medicine, neuroscience, and computer science, contributing to data handling, imaging analysis, and manuscript preparation.

Qualified applicants typically hold a bachelor’s degree with strong organizational and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required for research assistant role.
• Prior research or clinical experience recommended.
• Programming experience with Linux/UNIX, Python, MATLAB, or R preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team on schizophrenia, clinical high risk for psychosis, and other studies.
• Assist in data entry, data analysis, and clinical lab activities during MRI sessions.
• Learn image processing for structural, functional, and diffusion MRI analysis.
• Use SPSS or R for basic data management and statistics.
• Help troubleshoot image processing pipelines and prepare manuscripts.

Skills

Science background, diverse majors

Research experience

Programming (Python, MATLAB, R)

Unix/Linux skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Linux/UNIX

MATLAB

Python

R

Job description

The Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory at Mass General Brigham seeks a Research Assistant to support neuroimaging studies of brain abnormalities linked to psychiatric conditions. You will join a collaborative team spanning medicine, neuroscience, and computer science, contributing to data handling, imaging analysis, and manuscript preparation.

Qualified applicants typically hold a bachelor’s degree with strong organizational and teamwork skills.