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Req #: 247707

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Job Location Detail: Telework option to be discussed with manager

Posting Date: 07/15/2025

Closing Info:

Closes On 07/29/2025

Salary: $3,688 - $4,915 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes:

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20250130-a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

Job Description:

The UW Genetic Risk and Neurodevelopment Lab in the Department of Psychology will be hiring a full time Research Technologist 2 responsible for assisting with genetic, behavioral, passive sensing, and neuroimaging data processing and analyses, and for setting up genetic and neuroimaging data processing pipelines using existing software packages on UW’s high-performance compute cluster.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Create wrapper scripts to implement genomic and neuroimaging data processing software on UW compute cluster

+ Assisting other lab members with the creation of data processing and analysis scripts

+ Create documentation for data processing and analysis pipelines

+ Under supervision, carry out data processing and analyses

+ Perform related duties as required **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**

+ Bachelor's Degree in an appropriate field of technology or science,

+ PLUS one year of research experience equivalent to Research Technologist I OR one year of full-time post-baccalaureate college in an appropriate field of science or technology. Professional level experience may be substituted, year-for-year, for the formal academic degree. **ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS**

+ Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.

+ Experience utilizing Linux command line-based tools and software packages.

+ Prior programming and/or data analysis experience with bash scripting, R, and/or python. **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Prior research experience or interest in genetics or neuroscience of human traits is desirable.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.