The Tokuda Lab. at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School seeks an individual who is passionate about medical imaging and/or robotics for image-guided therapy. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing devices and software for image-guided robot-assisted interventions (e.g., biopsy and ablation) and testing them.
This fellowship position is an excellent opportunity for those already pursuing or starting a biomedical engineering career. NCIGT offers a unique translational research environment where a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, imaging physicists, computer scientists, technologists, and nurses collaborate in a state-of-the-art facility. Our laboratory is located in the main hospital campus and has easy access to the clinical environment, where we evaluate our software and/or devices regularly.
- Purpose
- Have a few years of training after obtaining a doctoral degree.
- Acquire additional skills/expertise in biomedical engineering.
- Acquire academic skills, such as publication, grant writing, etc.
- Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop/modify mechanical devices for image-guided interventions.
- Develop algorithms for planning and guiding the procedure.
- Test developed devices in the clinical environment.
- Work with collaborators in other institutions to define requirements and specifications.
- Document the requirement and specifications of the developed hardware and software.
- Publish research outcomes in conferences or scientific journals.
- Qualifications
- Ph.D. in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, applied physics, or computer science with an emphasis on experimental work.
- Skills/Abilities/Competencies Required
- Business-level English speaking and writing skills.
- Experience in developing robotic or mechatronic systems.
- Skill in writing software using a programming language (C/C++, Python, Java).
- Skill in using basic software development tools (Git, CMake, debuggers, …).
- Salary/Benefit
- See the BWH Policies and Guidelines for Postdoctoral Fellows for the salary scale. BWH is in the process of increasing the minimum salary scale for BWH Postdoctoral Fellows to 20% above the NIH/NRSA scale.
- Our institution may offer a visa support depending on the job title and the candidate’s qualifications. For more information about visa support, please contact The Office for Global Professionals and Scholars (GPS).
For inquiries, please contact Junichi Tokuda.
