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# Lead Scientific Software Engineer, MoBI

- **Company:** Child, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $96,647.0 - $159,001.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Data Analysis, Bash Shell, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Cognitive Science, Computer Programming, Data Visualization, Github, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Machine Learning, Eye Tracking, Signal Processing, Web Applications, Enterprise Software Applications, Information Technology, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18633816/Lead-Scientific-Software-Engineer-Mobi-New-York-New-York

## About the Role

* PhD in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
 * 5+ years of experience in at least one data modality of MoBI: MRI, EEG, physiological measures, eye-tracking, developing computer-based tasks, or ecological assessments.
 * Demonstrated capacity for technical leadership including architecture design and team mentorship
 * Programming expertise in a combination of Python (including the scientific Python ecosystem), R, C++, C#, Javascript, Matlab, bash scripting, or equivalent.
 * Experience working in Unix/Linux environments on both personal and high-performance computing infrastructures.
 * Deep knowledge of image and signal processing.
 * Experience developing and applying data analysis and machine learning technologies independently.
 * Proven ability to establish technical standards and best practices.

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## Description

As part of the Research, Strategic Data Initiatives team, you will report to Research, Strategic Data Initiatives. You will be responsible for MoBI's technical architecture, standards, and best practices while providing technical leadership and project-level guidance. This role will establish technical direction, mentor team members, and ensure engineering excellence across all MoBI development efforts. The Lead Scientific Software

Developer will develop and maintain multiple scientific software packages, pipelines, and web based applications for use in mental health research and use a range of laboratory methods across projects, including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrophysiology (EEG), physiological measures (e.g., actigraphy, heart rate, respiration), computer-based tasks, eye tracking, and ecological assessments. This is an exempt, full- time position requiring a minimum of four (4) days per week in the office located in our NYC headquarters office.

You Will:

 * Manage MoBI's technical architecture, standards, and best practices; providing technical

leadership and project-level guidance and defining and maintaining technical strategy and

roadmap for MoBI Core pipelines and infrastructure.

 * Develop and implement pipelines for collection, quality control, and analysis of data for

MoBI experiments.

 * Specify analytic requirements for experiments to establish usability and validity of

software pipelines.

 * Program tasks, software pipelines, data visualization tools, and machine learning or data

science utilities for a variety of scientific use cases.

 * Contribute to effective, scalable, well-documented code, and share code to GitHub, or

equivalent, repositories for version control, leading code review processes and establish

quality standards for team deliverables

 * Write documentation and relevant text for scientific, clinical, or public distribution of

knowledge.

 * Mentor team members on technical approaches, best practices and professional

development and act as the internal resource to scientific and clinical teams with software

and data science needs at the Child Mind Institute and collaborating centers.

 * Perform additional job-related duties as assigned.