MRI Engineer

As an MRI Engineer at AION

• Design and build custom MRI hardware for experiments across cells, tissues, animals, and eventually humans
• Work directly with scientists to translate informal experimental needs into functional imaging systems, fixtures, coils, sequences, and analysis pipelines
• Design, fabricate, and test RF coils, gradient systems, low-field magnet assemblies, shielding, phantoms, sample holders, and bench-scale MRI hardware
• Develop and optimize pulse sequences for low-field and experimental MRI, including approaches for relaxation mapping, diffusion, susceptibility, flow, and quantitative tissue-state imaging
• Build reconstruction and signal analysis pipelines to extract biophysical data from MRI signals: T1, T2, T2*, diffusion metrics, conductivity-adjacent signals, phase, noise, drift, and field inhomogeneity
• Close the loop between hardware and biology: design the scan, build the system, acquire the data, analyze the signal, and make the tool practical for scientists to use
• Survey and prototype emerging MRI modalities: low-field MRI, portable MRI, magnetic resonance fingerprinting, quantitative MRI, MR elastography, electrical properties tomography, and hybrid electromagnetic imaging systems

Requirements

• Strong first-principles thinker who is comfortable working with teammates outside their own domain
• Generalist wiring: willing to learn across electromagnetics, hardware, biology, signal processing, and experimental design
• Comfortable building real systems, not just simulations or papers
• Experience with MRI physics, RF engineering, gradients, magnets, pulse sequence programming, reconstruction, or quantitative imaging is valuable, but obsessive technical ownership matters more

Qualifications

Details
St. Louis, MO (on-site). Equity for the right person.
hiring@aion.bio