Senior Imaging Scientist

Position Title:Senior Imaging Scientist

Reports To: Head of Product Development 

Position Location: Middleton, WI

Type: On-Site / Hybrid

Position Summary

The Senior Imaging Scientist takes a lead role on the team responsible for designing, developing, and managing medical imaging solutions for Leo.  Principally, the Senior Imaging Scientist is involved with image reconstruction, signal processing, image artifact removal, image quality, and image visualization, and how these areas will meet user needs in a clinical setting.

The Senior Imaging Scientist will contribute to and participate in a variety of engineering activities throughout the product development lifecycle, including gathering and defining requirements, design, and implementation of solutions, and supporting testing and release efforts.

Relevant Knowledge and Skill Requirements

The Senior Imaging Scientist contributes to design decisions throughout the entire imaging chain from data acquisition to image reconstruction and display.  To achieve the highest image quality required in the clinic, the Senior Imaging Scientist must have fundamental knowledge of the system geometry and beamline hardware components, motion of the system and patient, scan protocols, physics of encoding signal contrast, detector physics, the signal processing chain, modelling, and correcting of non-idealities, statistical analysis, image reconstruction of the signal, and image artifact reduction.  The Senior Imaging Scientist must consult with domain experts from other areas of the product, such as mechanical and electrical subsystems and user interfaces, so that informed decisions in those areas are in part made regarding reconstructed image quality.  Finally, a significant role for the Senior Imaging Scientist is leading and training Junior Imaging Scientists and Software Engineers to accomplish goals set for the team.   

Key Responsibilities

• Develop algorithms for image reconstruction and artifact reduction
• Research literature to incorporate relevant/emerging concepts in image reconstruction
• Analyze imaging experiments
• Integrate the reconstruction subsystem with other subsystems
• Define and validate image quality metrics for Leo
• Write, document, and test imaging requirements
• Communicate imaging requirements and workflows for UI developers
• Train and manage junior level scientists and engineers

Required Qualifications and Skills

• PhD in Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or related field
• Medical image reconstruction, with particular focus in CT image reconstruction
• CT physics, imaging theory, computer science, optimization theory
• Experimental physics
• Proficiency in C++/CUDA, GPU programming, MATLAB
• Comfortable presenting technical concepts to a non-technical audience, including executive summaries for senior leadership through email and live presentations (strong written and verbal communication).
• Demonstrated history of achieving challenging goals through creative solutions.
• Experience with authoring & reviewing technical documentation.

About Leo Cancer Care 

Cancer is one of the biggest killers that we face today with 1 in 5 people diagnosed at some point in their life, it is something that affects us all. 50% of all patients diagnosed with cancer should receive Radiation Therapy as part of their treatment but due to the cost, size and complexity of current technology, the number that do is around half of that.  

Current Radiation Therapy is delivered with a patient lay on a table while a large machine is rotated around them delivering radiation from different angles to kill the tumor. Lay on a table, many patients report that they feel like a passenger in their treatment feeling vulnerable through the entire process. Leo Cancer Care was founded with one clear goal, to create a more human way to treat cancer and empower patients to face treatment on their feet.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to complement our passionate team in their mission to revolutionize cancer treatment in the role of Senior Imaging Scientist. You can be part of a world class team, developing the treatments of tomorrow. 

Leo Cancer Care is helping make changes in Radiation Therapy by shifting to upright patient positioning, imaging, and treatment. We do what we do to find a better way, a better way to treat cancer and create a paradigm shift in radiation therapy to benefit all. We will do this by improving accessibility and medicine in cancer care globally, making cancer treatment a more human experience for all. 

Working in radiotherapy not only will you be driving change for the greater good, but you'll be working on products that span a large field of different disciplines.  

Ways of working

As a team we work at a fast pace, we collaborate openly providing everyone with the opportunity to make a difference very quickly.  

In today’s world we understand the importance of working remotely and flexibly to maintain a work life balance and can offer this in combination with attending either our UK or US office. However, employees should consider working in the office as the default expectation to maximize collaboration and communication – with working from home as an allowed practice if agreed with their direct supervisor.