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Contemporaries is a government contracting firm supporting NIH in their efforts to hire a Bioengineer – MRI Technology to provide hands-on biomedical engineering support for the development, testing, integration, and troubleshooting of MRI hardware and software systems. This position will support a multidisciplinary research environment focused on MRI technology, including hardware development, image reconstruction, quantitative imaging, and pediatric imaging applications.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with MRI systems or biomedical imaging technology, including hardware testing, hardware/software integration, troubleshooting, and technical documentation.

Duties:

• Support the design, development, assembly, and testing of MRI hardware and subsystems.
• Work with components such as magnet arrays, RF coils, gradient coils/drivers, shim systems, electronics, and data-acquisition systems.
• Perform mechanical assembly, bench testing, calibration, and hardware verification.
• Test integrated MRI hardware/software systems used for signal acquisition, reconstruction, and quantitative imaging.
• Troubleshoot noise, drift, instability, calibration issues, and hardware/software integration problems.
• Support implementation, testing, and debugging of MRI reconstruction, enhancement, segmentation, and quantification software/AI pipelines.
• Assist with imaging data ingestion and preprocessing workflows.
• Maintain technical documentation, hardware configurations, calibration records, and software version information.
• Support compliance with applicable biomedical device, laboratory, safety, and human-subject research requirements.
• Train laboratory personnel on equipment operation and serve as a technical liaison between hardware and software teams.
• Contribute technical information to reports, regulatory/IRB documentation, manuscripts, and project updates.

Profile:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Medical Physics, Imaging Science, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience supporting MRI, medical imaging, biomedical instrumentation, or related imaging hardware systems.
• Experience testing, calibrating, integrating, and troubleshooting hardware and software systems.
• Familiarity with MRI signal acquisition, image reconstruction, or quantitative imaging workflows.
• Ability to diagnose hardware/software integration and system-performance issues.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers, scientists, investigators, physicists, and other technical personnel.

Highly Preferred:

• Direct experience with MRI hardware development or testing.
• Experience with low-field MRI systems.
• Experience with RF coils, gradient systems, magnet components, or MRI data-acquisition electronics.
• Experience with MRI reconstruction, segmentation, quantification, or AI/image-processing pipelines.
• Experience supporting NIH, federal research, academic medical research, or another regulated biomedical research environment.
• Familiarity with IRB/human-subject research requirements and biomedical equipment safety standards.

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