AngularJS - Any way to call javascript after the template is linked?

I'm trying to use a jQuery plugin (Plupload) with AngularJS. I have created a directive that will be my file upload "widget". The directive looks like this (The code in the link function is a very simplified version of the example on the Plupload site):

.directive('myFileUpload', function () {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        replace: true,
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            scope.uploaderProperties = {
                    runtimes : 'html5,flash,html4',
                    url : 'media/upload',
                    max_file_size : '10mb',
                    container: 'fileUploadContainer',
                    drop_element: 'fileUploadDropArea'
            };

            scope.uploader = new plupload.Uploader(scope.uploaderProperties);

            scope.uploader.init();

            scope.uploader.bind('FilesAdded', function(up, files) {
                scope.$apply();
            });
        },
        templateUrl: 'upload.html'
    };
});

My upload.html file looks like this:

<div id="{{uploaderProperties.container}}">
    <div id="{{uploaderProperties.drop_element}}" style="border: 1px black dashed;">Drop files here<br><br><br></div>
    Files to upload:<br>
    <div ng-repeat="currFile in uploader.files">{{currFile.name}} ({{currFile.size}}) </div>
    <br><br>
    <!-- for debugging -->
    {{uploader.files}}
    <br><br>
</div>

When I include the directive on my page with a <my-file-upload> element, all the data bindings happen correctly. The problem is, when scope.uploader.init(); runs, the ids haven't been inserted into the DOM yet, and so Plupload complains and breaks since it can't select those elements. If I just hard-code the fileUploadContainer and fileUploadDropArea ids in the template, it works just fine. However, I'd really like to define those ids in only one place.

So, is there any way I can run the init() on the uploader after the template is linked in? I thought about using $timeout to delay when it runs, but that seems like a pretty big hack to me. Is there a more correct way of accomplishing this?

UPDATE

I wrapped the init() in a $timeout like this

$timeout(function() {
    scope.uploader.init();
}, 2000);

just to make sure it would behave the way I was thinking, and sure enough, with this delay the plugin gets set up correctly and works. However, I do not want to have to rely on the timing of the $timeout. If there was just some way I could call scope.uploader.init(); after the template is linked in, everything should work fine. Anyone know of a good way of doing this?