Salary: $63,037 - $80,084

Grade: 18

The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. is seeking a highly motivated and qualified candidate for a full-time Research Scientist I in the Division of Systems Neuroscience. The Research Scientist will work in the Neural Circuits lab on an NIH-funded project examining how chronic stress disrupts reward-seeking and its associated neural circuitry, using a combination of in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology and optogenetics in awake-behaving mice.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The candidate will design and conduct multi-site in vivo recordings, optogenetic manipulations, and multiple stress and reward-seeking behavioral experiments, analyze the data, present at conferences, and write/submit manuscripts. May also supervise junior scientists.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and two years of professional experience in an appropriate field or master's degree in an appropriate field may substitute for one year of the experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

PhD. in neuroscience with expertise in electrophysiology, circuit dissection, and animal behavior

Experience in coding in MATLAB/Python. Experience with ML approaches.

RFMH employees may be required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 depending on work location and must provide proof of vaccination. Individuals that are not vaccinated for COVID-19 are ineligible for appointment to positions that require vaccination. Fully vaccinated is defined as two (2) or more weeks since receiving either the second dose in a two-dose COVID-19 vaccination series (e.g., Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) or the first and only dose of a single-dose vaccine (e.g., Johnson & Johnson [J&J]/Janssen).

Work Location: 1051 Riverside Drive, Kolb Annex, Unit 87, New York, NY 10032

To Apply: Submit an application through our website at https://nyspi.applicantpro.com/jobs/ no later than May 29, 2023. Please note- only applications submitted through our website will be considered.

The Research Foundation is a private not-for-profit corporation and is not an agency or instrumentality of the State of New York. Employees of the Research Foundation are not state employees, do not participate in any state retirement system, and do not receive state fringe benefits. Excellent Benefits Package. Employer/Minority/Women/Disabled/Veteran Employer. VEVRAA 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) compliant.