Research Programmer III- Machine Learning & Computational Neuroscience, Kennedy Lab

$75,000 – $100,000 · Posted 10 days ago

San DiegoLast seen 8 days ago

Summary

Research Programmer III will develop machine learning and computational methods to understand behavior and neural activity in the Kennedy Lab at Scripps Research. The role involves building and training deep neural networks for supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning problems, applying computer vision for high-throughput animal phenotyping, and contributing to scientific papers. Candidates must have 4+ years of software development experience in Python with demonstrated expertise in deep learning, version control (git/GitHub), and software engineering principles. The position offers opportunities to lead independent research projects on datasets from collaborating institutions and is ideal for those building toward graduate studies in computational neuroscience or machine learning.

Data Science Machine Learning Python Computer Vision Deep Neural Networks Diffusion Models Generative Modeling Git GitHub Hidden Markov Models Motor Control Neuroscience Reinforcement Learning Robotics Scalable System Architecture Sequence Modeling Supervised Learning Time Series Time Series Forecasting Unsupervised Learning