Research Scientist, Computational Pipelines

Mindspan Institute is a research institute focused on understanding the brain and addressing neurological disorders through collaborative science and engineering. The Research Scientist will own and advance an end-to-end computational segmentation pipeline for converting large-scale image volumes into simulation-ready reconstructions, while benchmarking performance, improving production reliability, and collaborating with experimentalists and annotators.

Responsibilities:

• Own the segmentation pipeline end to end: alignment, preprocessing, dense prediction, agglomeration, and handoff to proofreading
• Build the benchmarks: curated ground-truth volumes, and metrics that track what errors cost downstream
• Make evaluation automated and reproducible, with regression safeguards
• Run the data flywheel: find where the pipeline fails in production, request targeted annotations, and retrain
• Build the tooling that connects annotators and proofreaders to the training data
• Report measurable outcomes to institute leadership: throughput, cost, and error rates across conditions
• Documentation: keep pipeline documentation and experiment records that others can build on