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Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. Staff Scientist - 420874-7766 in Hoffman Estates, Illinois
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Apply now for the position of Staff Scientist and you will be responsible for sustaining image formation technology for SPECT. This position is located at Hoffman Estates, IL and a substantive relocation package will be provided to out of state candidates.
Your role:
responsible for sustaining image formation technology for SPECT.
In this role, you will contribute or lead efforts to support the technology needs for multimodal quantitative SPECT to address current and future clinical needs, by
o using your skills in experimental nuclear physics and imaging instrumentation by modeling and simulation of key components of the detector technology to develop and test solutions and considering constraints from clinical and business aspects.
It is expected that you have experience in nuclear image formation experimentation and quantitatively analyze the data, and then skillfully use that information to improve the design in coordination with experts in the field.
You will be working both with future technology as well as with legacy and therefore you are willing to deep dive in existing technology to maintain, adapt and improve, and also participate in the development of future solutions.
You will be using both an experimental as well as modeling and simulation-based approaches to troubleshoot or assess technologies.
As you are working in a multi-disciplinary team with access to luminary researchers worldwide, and you should have a strong customer focus and passion to understand and address clinical needs in this field.
You should be comfortable to take on large and complex problems as an individual contributor or as part of a larger team.
Your excellent communication skills and expertise will also allow you to provide technical support to service and marketing teams in addressing customer complaints and inquiries, and you will collaborate with luminary clinical sites worldwide to test and validate the new technologies in a clinical setting.
Your expertise:
Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics and imaging instrumentation. M.S. with at least 5 years also considered.
Desired areas of expertise
o Gamma ray detection instrumentation
o Simulation Packages: GEANT4 or similar
o Medical Imaging, in particular SPECT
o Image Quality
o Collimation up to 511keV
Demonstrated ability for hands-on bench work in a detector lab
Demonstrated strong data analysis skills
Demonstrated strong ability to use state-of-the-art computing environment with standard software tools, programming languages, scripting, version control, and efficient operations within Windows and Linux OS
Ability to communicate with both scientists and non-scientists is essential
Demonstrated strong statistical data analysis skills and proficiency using Matlab, Python, C/C++/C# on Windows, Linux/Unix platforms
Willing to travel up to 20%
To find out more about our Molecular Imaging business, have a look at https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/en-us/molecular-imaging
To find out more our SPECT Imaging Systems, please see https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/en-us/molecular-imaging/spect-and-spect-ct
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