Job description:
The University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (http://www.cmrr.umn.edu/) has an opening for a Jr. Engineer to assist in developing MRI technology and to design, build, test, and support RF antenna and MRI frontend receiver technology for the CMRR’s 7T, 10.5T and 16.4T ultra-high field MRI systems. The researcher will be embedded in the CMRR engineering group and will collaboratively with CMRR scientist and researchers develop these new MRI technologies.
This is an exciting entry level position with enormous professional growth potential. While the stated qualifications are important it is assumed that the successful applicant will go through an extended training period.

Responsibilities
• Produce fully tested RF circuits and integrate them into MRI compatible housings.
• Layout and design of optimized RF transmit and receive array coil technology.
• Design, fabrication, and testing of RF printed circuit boards including T/R switches, low noise amplifiers, bias tees, filters, etc.
• Assist fellow engineers with electronics lab management, 3D printing, MRI magnet maintenance, and RF hardware design, fabrication, and testing.
• Prepare progress reports, scientific manuscripts, and conference abstracts on the basis of your work. Assist in preparation of grant proposals.
• Specify and acquire supplies and equipment to support engineering work.
• Assist scientists with technical aspects of their experimental work including troubleshooting and repairing hardware faults as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned

The Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (http://www.cmrr.umn.edu/) is a multi-disciplinary research center in the Department of Radiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. CMRR is an outstanding research resource and one of the world’s leading high-field MRI facilities. The facility houses seven advanced human MRI scanners ( three 3Ts, 4T, two 7Ts and the world first whole body 10.5T) for research and clinical MRI and two small bore animal canners (9.4T and 16.4T).

The University of Minnesota offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

·         Competitive wages, paid holidays, vacation and sick leave

·         Low cost medical, dental, and pharmacy plans

·         Health care and dependent daycare flexible spending accounts

·         Excellent retirement plans with employer match

·         Disability and employer paid life insurance

·         Wellbeing program with reduced insurance premiums

·         Tuition reimbursement opportunities covering 75%-100% of eligible tuition

·         Student loan forgiveness opportunity

·         Opportunities for growth and promotion

·         Employee Assistance Program

For more information regarding benefits: https://humanresources.umn.edu/sites/humanresources.umn.edu/files/2021_tcd-cslr-75100-ben-0105-7_final.pdf

All required qualifications must be documented on application materials.
 

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Applied Sciences or a combination of education and experience to equal four years.
• Desire and ability to work in a multidisciplined team environment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience designing and simulating or prototyping electrical circuits
• Computing skills including MS office, circuit simulation (e.g. PSpice), and PCB design (e.g. EAGLE)
• Lab skills including soldering or reworking circuits containing through-hole and surface mount devices, use of power supplies, function generators, and oscilloscopes.

Preferred Qualifications:

In addition to the requirements above, the ideal candidate would have some additional skills that would be preferred in the recruitment process.

• Experience with 3D CAD (e.g. SolidWorks) and 3D printing.
• RF circuit modeling, prototyping, and testing experience.
• Electromagnetic simulation experience (e.g. CST)
• Lab experience working with vector network analyzers, RF signal generators, spectrum analyzers, RF power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, filters, transmit/receive switches, and antennas.
• Demonstrated experience preparing and presenting technical reports and/or scientific papers.