Neuroscientist

We are looking for research scientists enthusiastic about developing new therapeutics on the interface of cell biology and medical devices. Candidates can look forward to helping set up and scale a focused research program in collaboration with a world-class team of scientists and engineers with diverse technical backgrounds. Ideal candidates will have experience working with large animals, expertise in neurophysiology and/or in vivo imaging, and modern neural decoding methods.

Role responsibilities:

• Lead efforts to develop encoding and decoding models for a novel high-bandwidth retinal interface
• Help design and perform in vivo neurophysiology or imaging experiments
• Contribute to performing and analyzing large animal behavioral studies

Key qualifications:

• A track record of excellence in your field as demonstrated by publications, patents, success with commercialization or translation, or other notable achievements
• At least 3 years of hands on experience with modern neural decoding techniques
• Experience with electrophysiology and/or functional imaging techniques
• A strong grasp of quantitative methods, deep experience in data analysis, statistics, and machine learning
• Excellent communication skills, thrives working collaboratively and exalts in tackling difficult technical challenges

Preferred qualifications: 

• Experience working in the visual system
• Experience working with brain-computer interfaces

Benefits: 

At Science, our benefits are in place to support the whole you:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Flexible vacation and company-paid holidays
• Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
• Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care and medical leave
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Science
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k)