Biomedical Engineer (f/m/d)
Biomedical Engineer (f/m/d)
The hallmark of our research is the development of new techniques to assess the impact of airway disease and environmental factors on lung function and lung development in neonates and children.
What you can expect
- Coordinate the Nested Project 3 of the SwissPedHealth National Data Stream: collaborate with clinical data warehouses, lung function services and other hospitals to build the infrastructure allowing the transfer of clinical lung function data to the data centers and to a centralized national database (https://www.swisspedhealth.ch/nested_project_3.html)
- Build automated quality control algorithms for lung function measurements
- Maintain and improve existing research software and develop and test new research tools for analysis
- Analyze (third-parties) data with existing analysis tools
- Document newly developed analysis methods and write manuals for new software applications
- Collaborate and work with PhD students, medical doctors and study nurses
Your Profile
- Master degree or PhD in (life science) engineering, computer science, physics or equivalent
- Excellent programming skills in Python and/or Matlab
- Proficient in signal processing
- Experience with databases and SQL
- Willingness to work in an interdisciplinary research group and to take the main responsibility for technical aspects
- Fluent in English and preferably in German
- Diligent, well-organized, proactive, team worker and able to work independently
- Knowledge of clinical environment and/or data quality control
- Knowledge of spectroscopy and molar mass sensors
- Knowledge of lung function tests like Spirometry and Multiple Breath Washout (MBW)
What we offer
- Flexible work environment
- Take part into a national effort (SwissPedHealth) to make collected data across Children's Hospitals in Switzerland interoperable, standardized and quality-controlled.
- A well-equipped lung function laboratory with around 2000 lung function tests per year both for clinics and research), with several PhD-students, post-docs and study nurses working on various research projects, headed by Prof. Philipp Latzin.
Questions about the job?
For further information please contact +41 31 632 94 31 (There is not always someone next to the phone so you might have to try several times)
INSELSPITAL
3010 Berne
3010 Berne
Place of work
Freiburgstrasse 20
3010 Berne
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