aion biosciencesSt Louis, MO
MRI Engineer
MRI Engineer
MRI Engineer
aion biosciencesSt Louis, MO
9 days ago
Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus ManufacturingResearch and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)Diagnostic Imaging Centers
Apply for this role →Aion MRI Engineer At AION, we're building sci-fi medical devices. Our mission is to bring aging under full biomedical control. We believe this can be achieved through closed-loop hardware that reads and writes bioelectric states in living tissue using electromagnetic and acoustic fields – a control layer for cell reprogramming that chemistry and gene therapy fundamentally cannot provide. We're looking for exceptional engineers to join us in building machines that make aging optional.
The role: As an MRI Engineer at AION, you will:
- Design and build custom MRI hardware for experiments across cells, tissues, animals, and eventually humans
- Work directly with scientists to translate informal experimental needs into functional imaging systems, fixtures, coils, sequences, and analysis pipelines
- Design, fabricate, and test RF coils, gradient systems, low-field magnet assemblies, shielding, phantoms, sample holders, and bench-scale MRI hardware
- Develop and optimize pulse sequences for low-field and experimental MRI, including approaches for relaxation mapping, diffusion, susceptibility, flow, and quantitative tissue-state imaging
- Build reconstruction and signal analysis pipelines to extract biophysical data from MRI signals: T1, T2, T2*, diffusion metrics, conductivity-adjacent signals, phase, noise, drift, and field inhomogeneity
- Close the loop between hardware and biology: design the scan, build the system, acquire the data, analyze the signal, and make the tool practical for scientists to use
- Survey and prototype emerging MRI modalities: low-field MRI, portable MRI, magnetic resonance fingerprinting, quantitative MRI, MR elastography, electrical properties tomography, and hybrid electromagnetic imaging systems
- YouWe value mission alignment, integrity, and ambition over pedigree.
- Strong first-principles thinker who is comfortable working with teammates outside your own domain
- Generalist wiring: willing to learn across electromagnetics, hardware, biology, signal processing, and experimental design
- Comfortable building real systems, not just simulations or papers
- Experience with MRI physics, RF engineering, gradients, magnets, pulse sequence programming, reconstruction, or quantitative imaging is valuable, but obsessive technical ownership matters more
- DetailsSt. Louis, MO (on-site).Equity for the right person.
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Level
Lead
Location
St Louis, MO
Occupation
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
Industry
Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing
Posted
9 days ago