Senior Image Data Scientist-Center for Bioimage Informatics

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 86,320 - 154,960; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Generous Paid Time Off

Job summary

St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, is seeking a Senior Image Data Scientist to design and develop image-analysis pipelines. The candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to translate scientific questions into scalable analysis workflows.

The role demands strong programming skills, especially in Python, and experience in managing and analyzing image data for biomedical research. Collaboration and technical leadership are crucial.

The salary range for this position is $86,320 - $154,960 annually.

Qualifications

• PhD or Bachelor's degree with relevant work experience in image analysis.
• Strong programming skills, particularly in Python.
• Experience in developing image-analysis pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and validate image-analysis pipelines for biomedical research.
• Support image data management and provide technical consultation.
• Contribute to shared bioimage analysis infrastructure.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Python

Experience with modern computer vision

Experience with machine learning

Experience with scalable scientific workflows

Experience with bioimaging tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, or a related field

PhD in a relevant quantitative field

Tools

ImageJ/Fiji

Snakemake

Nextflow

Job description

The Center for Bioimage Informatics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking a Senior Image Data Scientist to design, develop, validate, document, and operate image-analysis pipelines and visualization solutions for biomedical imaging research. This role works closely with investigators, software engineers, data scientists, imaging facility scientists, and biostatisticians to translate scientific questions into reproducible, scalable analysis workflows using modern image analysis, statistical, computer vision, and machine learning approaches.

The successful candidate will support image data management, maintain analysis software and repositories, evaluate new methods and tools, and provide technical consultation and training to research teams. This role also serves as a project lead to coordinate image‑analysis efforts, align related projects, and contribute to shared CBI infrastructure that supports routine and advanced bioimage analysis.

Applicant Statement

Applicants are encouraged to include a brief cover letter or supplemental statement with a link to representative work, such as a public repository, napari plugin, published pipeline, or comparable artifact. The statement should briefly describe one end‑to‑end image‑analysis project or software tool the applicant has owned in production, including the biological or scientific question, data scale, methods or model used, pipeline design, validation approach, user adoption, and resulting impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant quantitative, computational, biomedical, or scientific field.
• Experience developing, validating, and maintaining image‑analysis pipelines for biological or medical imaging data.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, or statistical image‑analysis methods.
• Experience with emerging AI methods relevant to bioimage analysis, including vision transformers, foundation models, generative AI, large language models (LLMs), or agentic AI tools.
• Experience with scalable and reproducible scientific workflows (e.g., Snakemake, Nextflow), containers, version control, and HPC or cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience using modern bioimaging tools, data standards, and open‑source ecosystems such as napari, ImageJ/Fiji, Cellpose, SAM-family and related foundation segmentation models, QuPath, BioFormats, OME‑Zarr/NGFF, or similar platforms.
• Experience with large image data volumes, image data management, quality control, benchmarking, annotation strategies, and method evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with research teams, communicate technical results clearly, write user‑facing documentation, and provide training through courses, workshops, seminars, or similar formats.
• Evidence of technical leadership, such as leading multi‑lab projects, contributing to shared infrastructure, publishing methods, or contributing to open‑source scientific software.

Minimum Education and/or Training

• Bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science, data science, computer engineering or related field required.
• Master's degree preferred.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum requirement: Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of work experience in relevant area (e.g., applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science, data science, computer engineering).
• Experience exception: Master's degree with 1+ year of relevant experience.
• Experience in image analyses, image data management, and programming (e.g., Python, R, Matlab, Java, C/C++).
• Experience in image analysis platforms (e.g., ImageJ/Fiji, CellProfiler), scientific computing, scientific data visualization, scientific computer code optimization and evaluation in an HPC environment, development of algorithms, statistical methods or scientific software, working with large image data volumes, biological/medical imaging preferred.
• Proven performance in earlier role/comparable role.

Compensation

In recognition of certain U.S. state and municipal pay transparency laws, St. Jude is including a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This is an estimate offered in good faith and a specific salary offer takes into account factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $86,320 - $154,960 per year for the role of Senior Image Data Scientist - Center for Bioimage Informatics.

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