Project Manager, MoBI

Summary:
The Child Mind Institute (CMI) is seeking an individual with an extensive background in research study design and measurement of brain and behavior to serve as Project Manager of the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) Core within the newly formed Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics Program (NGDT).
The NGDT is being launched in partnership with the California Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative to innovate mental health therapeutics and treatment response monitoring tools for children and adolescents using emerging technologies (e.g., biometrics, augmented reality, virtual reality). Smartphone-, web- and metaverse platforms will be the primary focus of the program, with explorations into the potential added value of wearable devices as well.
The Project Manager of MoBI will oversee an engineering team dedicated to the implementation, augmentation, and testing of processing and feature extraction pipelines for various forms of data obtained from the brain (e.g., fMRI, EEG) and body (e.g., eye tracking, physiology, facial expression, actigraphy, motion capture, voice). Resultant pipelines will be used by other cores in the NGDT (e.g., Testing, Evaluation and Optimization Core, Product Teams, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Core), and published via open-source licenses. This will involve working with domain experts, scientists, product teams, and stakeholders to oversee the team in evaluating and augmenting existing pipelines for target data modalities, as well as creating novel pipelines when appropriate.
Reporting to the Vice President of Research, this is an exempt, full-time position at the Child Mind Institute headquarters in midtown New York. A hybrid schedule is possible.
The Child Mind Institute is proud to be named a Great Place to Work-Certified company! Our competitive compensation and benefits include medical insurance, 401(k) with match, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, dependent care and discounted tickets and entertainment perks program. For more information about our benefits, please visit our employee benefits website.
Responsibilities:

• Set and maintain priorities, pipeline requirements, and timelines for the MoBI Core.
• Conduct needs assessment for CMI Science & Engineer project portfolio on an ongoing basis; leverage internal and external stakeholders, customer feedback and the literature to support this process.
• Specify the analytic requirements for, and oversee, experiments to establish usability and/or validity of NGDT pipelines.
• Oversee MoBI team members and activities to ensure timely and effective performance.
• Hire, train, and monitor performance for MoBI team members.
• Provide oral and/or written evaluations of pipelines to the NGDT Leadership and MoBI Core stakeholders at weekly meetings, and to CMI Science more broadly on a periodic (e.g., quarterly) basis.
• Work closely with applied neuroscience and machine learning teams to support analyses and interpretation of findings.
• Support the generation of validity reports for key stakeholders, including funding agencies.
• Support the publication of findings as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Masters or doctoral degree in psychology, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, computer science, or applied mathematics.
• At least five years of team management experience in biomedical engineering, neuroscience or related environments.
• Analytical capabilities; an eye for detail; time management skills.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages.
• Knowledge in biomedical signal processing.
• Ability to interact with basic, clinical and translational investigators, as well as other domain experts.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the demonstrated capacity to effectively work cooperatively and in partnership with diverse groups and to sensitively balance the requirements of each of these groups.
• Passion for the Child Mind Institute mission.

Special Considerations:
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