Staff Scientist - Cardiac Imaging
- Location
- Danville, PA; Work from Home
- Work mode
- Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
Location: Henry Hood Center For Health Research Shift: Days (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Worker Type: Regular Exemption Status: Yes Job Summary: Responsible for conducting research under the supervision of a research faculty member and functions as a technical or intellectual resource to the assigned work group. May assume responsibility for a specific topic within the faculty member’s research program. Job Duties:
- Develops and leads research projects within the defined scope of the supervising faculty member’s research program.
- Responsible for gathering preliminary data for grant applications, completion of objectives of funded external grants, and preparation of completed work for publication.
- Contributes to writing grant applications and manuscripts.
- May submit authored grants with permission of the supervisor.
- Performs literature searches to gather information pertaining to research projects or procedures in order to develop new protocols, projects or grants applications for assigned work group.
- Responsible for determining experimental design, collecting data, performing calculations, and analyzing results.
- Responsible for reviewing research or data controls and determining that the research results are valid.
- Maintains and completes appropriate records of the purpose, methods, results, and conclusions from each research project.
- May oversee the work of support personnel in the work group at the discretion of the supervising faculty member.
- Participates in research meetings and formal seminars to present, explain, and discuss research conducted by the work group.
- May deliver presentations to extramural audiences at national meetings and academic institutions.
Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
Position Details:
Preferred Experience and Qualifications:
- Experience with prospective human subjects research
- Familiarity with the MRI environment and safety procedures
- Experience with MRI operation and real-time troubleshooting, particularly for cardiac MRI
- Experience with MRI optimization methods and pulse sequence design a plus
- Medical image analysis, including image segmentation (manual or automated) and 3D mesh generation
- Experience with image and signal processing
- Proficient programming knowledge in MATLAB, Python, R, or similar
- Understanding of and experience with myocardial structure and function measurements, including volumes, myocardial tissue properties, and strain
- Experience with exome or genome sequencing data and bioinformatic analyses
- Interest in heritable cardiomyopathy and/or arrhythmia a plus
- Experience with statistical analyses from large biobank cohorts
Education: Doctoral Degree- (Required), Doctoral Degree-Behavioral Science (Preferred) Experience: Minimum of 3 years-Related work experience (Required) Certification(s) and License(s):
Skills: Reference Content, Research Analysis, Research And Development Function, Research Documents, Research Methodologies OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.
- KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
- EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
- LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
- INNOVATION : We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
- SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
From GC Geisinger Clinic's careers page (Workday), checked 30 Oct 2026.
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Posted 15 Oct 2026 · checked 30 Oct 2026 · Report this job