Siemens Healthineers · 3 months ago
SPECT Image Formation Sr. Staff Scientist
Hoffman Estates, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$158K/yr - $237K/yr
10+ years expSiemens Healthineers is a leader in medical technology, dedicated to pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. The SPECT Image Formation Sr. Staff Scientist will be responsible for sustaining image formation technology for SPECT, contributing to multimodal quantitative SPECT to meet clinical needs through experimental nuclear physics and imaging instrumentation.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for sustaining image formation technology for SPECT
Contribute or lead efforts to support the technology needs for multimodal quantitative SPECT to address current and future clinical needs, by 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
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
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
Using both an experimental as well as modeling and simulation-based approaches to troubleshoot or assess technologies
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
Comfortable to take on large and complex problems as an individual contributor or as part of a larger team
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
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics and imaging instrumentation
Minimum of 10 years of expertise in SPECT
Gamma ray detection instrumentation
Simulation Packages: GEANT4 or similar
Medical Imaging experience, in particular SPECT
Image Quality
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%
Benefits
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Life insurance
Long-term and short-term disability insurance
Paid parking/public transportation
Paid time off
Paid sick and safe time
Company
Siemens Healthineers
Siemens Healthineers is a healthcare technology company that provides diagnostic and therapeutic products and services. It is a sub-organization of Siemens.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.76BKey Investors
Ontario Together Fund
2021-05-25Grant· $2.5M
2021-03-25Post Ipo Equity· $2.76B
2018-03-16IPO
Leadership Team
Enno Nehrbass
SVP / Head of Strategy & Collaboration Mgmt Diagnostic Imaging
Sebastian Kronmueller
Vice President, Head of Strategy & Business Development - Laboratory Diagnostics
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