Research Technician II / III - PTR-BioImage Analysis

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is a pioneering research center where scientists pursue fundamental questions in the life sciences. The Research Technician II/III will perform image and video annotation, segmentation, quality control, protocol development, and biological observation reporting in collaboration with researchers and computational teams.

Responsibilities:

• Gain in-depth knowledge of commercial and custom annotation software
• Collect relevant data from multidimensional images and videos
• Review and correct automatically or manually generated annotations
• Perform quality control on large datasets, including screening work produced by other team members
• Provide feedback on image quality, software performance, and annotation challenges
• Report biological observations arising from the data
• Communicate effectively with the team manager, project leads, researchers, and support groups at Janelia
• Prepare datasets for annotation, contribute to protocol development and documentation, and serve as a point of contact for collaborating researchers