Senior Physicist

Remote work is available one day per week. Additional remote work days can be arranged in consultation with your manager for special circumstances.

Location:

Danvers, MA

Samsung HME America (Healthcare and Medical Equipment) is Samsung’s U.S. medical imaging organization, delivering advanced diagnostic solutions across Ultrasound, Digital Radiography, and Computed Tomography. We lead nationwide sales, marketing, service, and distribution of Samsung’s imaging technologies, partnering with healthcare providers to strengthen diagnostic capabilities, streamline clinical workflows, and support better patient care. Samsung HME America also serves as the global manufacturing center for Samsung’s mobile Computed Tomography (mCT) business, leading the development of advanced CT systems used by healthcare providers worldwide.

Backed by Samsung Electronics’ global technology leadership, our teams work closely with clinicians to translate real-world challenges into innovative imaging solutions. Our culture combines a sense of urgency, customer focus, and clinical collaboration to advance the future of medical imaging.

The Senior Physicist will serve as a key hands‑on contributor and technical expert on all innovation and core product technology initiatives to help ensure new product and product enhancements are leading the industry. With exceptional abstract problem‑solving abilities, scientific creativity and a rigorous attention to detail, this position will focus on developing, implementing, evaluating, and applying novel CT image acquisition and analysis techniques for CT scanners with the ability to present complex scientific approaches and results to an interdisciplinary audience as well as to maintain clear and concise documentation.

The Senior Physicist will engage in work on CT scanners to create production‑ready codes in the fields of image processing and computer vision.

• Display an absolute understanding of factors that affect CT image quality and data acquisition time
• Set up and lead (multi‑site) projects and interface with suppliers and manufacturers
• Implement, improve, and use novel sophisticated image processing and image analysis programs in a numerically efficient and robust way, emphasis on diagnostic CT applications
• Answer Physicist questions from customer sites when applicable.
• Utilize project management and leadership skills to develop and establish program plans and estimates.
• Oversee the development and implementation of CT image generation methods, including data corrections, image reconstruction, and image processing
• Manage the integration of new Computed Tomography (CT) scanner systems; collect and analyze data; write software for data analysis; design experiments for testing algorithms and features; document test results
• Deliver technical reports and prototype code
• Routinely present reports to engineering staff and management
• Prototype advanced image processing algorithms around image reconstruction
• Tune image processing algorithms to enhance image quality
• Design suitable solutions to complex problems with assistance from senior engineers
• Responsible for the design and analysis of novel imaging platforms and applications

• Ph.D. in Physics, Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, or similar discipline is required.
• 5+ years of direct industry experience in the design, development, and implementation of commercial CT scanners.
• Extensive hands‑on experience with CT image generation methods, including data corrections, image reconstruction, and advanced image processing.
• Strong background in CT physics, associated biophysics, and Digital Signal/Image Processing.
• Proven ability to transition algorithms from prototype (MATLAB/Python) to production‑ready implementation (C/C++).
• Excellent skills in evaluating and establishing new imaging approaches in a clinical environment.

• Programming experience in C/C++, Python, and MATLAB. Experience with modern software development practices (version control e.g., Git, issue tracking) is highly…