Senior Research Engineer (Autism Research Centre)

TITLE: Senior Research Engineer

STATUS: Temporary, Full-Time (1.00 FTE)

START DATE: January 2025 (1-year contract)

SUPERVISOR: Evdokia Anagnostou

PROGRAM: Bloorview Research Institute

Join us in building a world of possibility for children with neurodevelopmental differences and disabilities!

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada's largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital and is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. It has ranked amongst Canada's top 40 research hospitals for more than a decade. Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People and Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.

The Bloorview Research Institute (BRI), embedded within the hospital, is the only university-affiliated research institute in Canada dedicated to pediatric disability, and one of very few around the world. BRI's vision is to be a global leader in transformative, equity-driven research dedicated to enabling personalized versions of a good life across the lifespan, for all individuals with childhood onset disabilities, acquired injuries and developmental differences, their families and communities.

Description

The Autism Research Center Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is seeking a Senior Research Engineer with expertise in neuroscience/ signal processing and advanced analytics, including machine learning, across species. He/she/they will collaborate with engineers, clinicians, and third-party researchers and laboratories.

Our lab is committed to fostering a climate of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. This commitment is central to, and mutually supportive of, our research excellence mandate. We welcome and respect the diversity of all members of our community and we support an inclusive culture for our clients, families, research scientists, staff, participants, trainees, volunteers, trustees, and partners. We welcome applications from Black individuals and other racialized persons, Indigenous Peoples, women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2SA+ persons, and others who may contribute to further diversification of ideas within our community. We are committed to fair assessment of a candidate's abilities, and consideration for diversity of thought, method, and experience, including non-traditional career paths. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process where needed.

This position is responsible for supporting research activities in the ARC Lab with Dr Anagnostou who trains and mentors graduate students and other lab members on above items.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, co-develop and implement processing and analytic pipelines
• Cross data platform analytics
• Prepare manuscripts
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary team
• Maintaining the privacy and security of data being analyzed by following hospital best practices and procedures
• Troubleshoot source of problems and find solutions to ensure continued operations of research studies
• Establish processes in accordance with institutional policies and procedure to protect safety and privacy of researchers, participants and data
• Provide overall leadership of engineering operations, research compliance, adherence to standard operation procedures and compliance with hospital policies for the entire lab

Qualifications

• PhD degree in related field
• Some experience with acquisition of biomarkers and advanced analytics
• Experience communicating research results, including written and oral