View source for 2010-SNR-Slicer-PostDoc

Job Title: Mechanical Technician

*Division/Department: Surgical Navigation and Robotics laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
*Reports to: 	Nobuhiko Hata, PhD
*Salary Grade/Band:  	NIH Post-doc Salary Scale adjusted by BWH range

*Summary
We are seeking computer scientist/engineer to develop and validate Cardiac and Percutaneous navigation software using Slicer

*Responsibility
Job responsibilities include development of Slicer modules for cardiac and percutaneous navigation for medical robotics and devices research. 

*Qualification

The ideal candidate will have a technician degree in relevant technology with practical hands-on experience in developing medium scale software. Experience in using VTK/ITK/CMake is a must. Experience using Slicer is a major plus.
A minimum of 3 years experience in programming C++ in linux environment a dynamic, hi-tech R&D lab or product development environment is required.  US citizenship or permanent residence required; or immigrant visa to start working immediately.

*Detailed qualification
**Ability to design and develop prototype navigation software in unix and c++. 
** Ability to understand the usage of NDI or Ascension tracking device and connect linux workstation to the devices per instruction
**Ability to program using TCP/IP socket communication protocol
** Ability to install and setup RedHat Linux
** Ability to document the progress of development in wiki page
** Ability to test and validate the accuracy of navigation software using phantom
** Ability to validate and test the system in animal and clinical studies
** Ability to write IRB petition material is a plus
** Ability to design the statistical analysis of the validation study is a plus


*Initial assignment
**Integration of 3D echocardiaography in 3D Slicer to real-time image transfer and US probe tracking using NDI sensors
**Integration of Beta Probe to 3D Slicer with probe tracking using NDI sensors