Scientific Associate - Pre-clinical Research

CAMH’s Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute (CFMHRI) is seeking a full-time, permanent Scientific Associate specializing in neural data systems and behavioral analytics. The Scientific Associate will serve as a central technical and scientific lead within the laboratory, with primary responsibility for developing, standardizing, and maintaining pipelines for neural and behavioral data acquisition, analysis, documentation, and open data sharing. This role integrates data engineering, experimental design, and personnel training to ensure rigor, reproducibility, and scalability of research operations. The Scientific Associate will also lead efforts to implement and validate emerging technologies for behavioral tracking and pose estimation, and to integrate these measures with neural recordings. Reporting to the Principal Investigator, this position will play a key role in shaping lab-wide infrastructure and mentoring trainees in best practices across experimental and computational workflows.