Research Support Assistant II

About the role

The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene is seeking a qualified hourly, part-time Research Support Assistant II for a short-term position to investigate neural activity and serotonin biosensor signals obtained from brain tissue in preclinical models of stress and fear generalization.

Work Location: 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032

Responsibilities

• Preprocessing and normalization of simultaneous neural activity and serotonin signals
• Implementing and validating three computational analyses: multivariate Hidden Markov Models, Representational Similarity Analysis, and linear decoding with permutation testing
• Extracting per-animal metrics for group-level statistical comparison
• Generating publication-quality figures

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in science and/or information technology
• At least 1 year experience with Python and MATLAB
• At least 1 year experience analyzing time series signals
• At least 1 year experience with probabilistic classification models in NumPy, SciPy, and SciKit-learn

Qualifications

• At least 1 year experience with probabilistic modeling or dynamical systems
• Familiarity with neuroscience or biosensor data
• Prior exposure to Hidden Markov Models or representational similarity analysis

Benefits

Excellent Benefits Package.

Pay

$21.23 - $25.55

Schedule

Part-time, short-term position.