The Center for Children and Families, an interdisciplinary Preeminent center at Florida International University (FIU), has 41 faculty associates, 450+ undergraduates, and 100+ trainees in masters, doctoral, and professional programs who study child and adolescent mental health and are focused on advancing the way we treat child and adolescent mental health disorders. The CCF has a tripartite mission that includes research, education, and service and it operates a renowned, multi-disciplinary clinic where state of the art, evidence-based treatments are offered to children and families that struggle with mental health conditions, including ADHD, anxiety, conduct and behavioral problems, difficulties with academic and social skills, and depression in children and adolescents. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other grant funding to the CCF exceeds $18 million annually.
The Neural Dynamics of Control Laboratory (www.NDCLab.com) within the Center for Children and Families seeks a part-time lab technician with good programming skills. Location for the position is flexible: either on-site in Miami, FL or fully remote. The initial contractual position is for 20 hours per week. The successful candidate will work primarily with Dr. George Buzzell, the lab manager, and other members of the NDCLab, including graduate students and undergraduate volunteers; the role will also collaborate closely with Dr. Jeremy Pettit and the Child Anxiety and Phobia Program. This individual will support the technological infrastructure for a multi-year NIMH R01 grant alongside smaller ongoing lab projects and longer-term visions for the lab.
Primary duties include:
- Management of the lab’s storage and processing queue on a Linux high performance cluster (HPC).
- Creation and maintenance of appropriate containers/images (Docker/Singularity) for computational reproducibility.
- Updating of scripts to facilitate data monitoring in a fast-paced research environment.
- Converting legacy MATLAB scripts to Python and debugging individual issues associated with script use within the lab.
- Supports the lab manager in the technical aspects of onboarding and training new lab members to work efficiently within the lab’s technological infrastructure.
The NDCLab employs behavioral, neural, and computational tools to understand how the human brain/mind self-monitors and controls itself overtime, understanding how these processes develop and relations to mental health. In conducting this research, we are highly committed to open source and open science initiatives, breaking down traditional barriers to contributing to science and knowledge creation.
Our lab technician is pivotal in supporting our open-source infrastructure for scientific collaboration, keeping our data analysis pipelines tidy, and creating technical documentation that makes it easier for anyone to contribute to cognitive neuroscience research.
The NDCLab is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team of researchers that reflects the world in which we live; therefore, individuals from all backgrounds and identities are highly encouraged to apply.
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