Brain Science is the New Rocket Science.
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Every audacious endeavor begins with a kernel. We want to expand the bounds of human intelligence, and this is our start, small by design.
We’re going to build technologies that will benefit the lives of billions for generations to come, and we need your help. We’re actively recruiting the brightest minds in neuroscience and engineering. Join us.
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Build and lead a multidisciplinary team to create the algorithms and neural interface for the world's first neuroprosthesis for cognitive repair and improvement in the hippocampus.
To Apply: Email Bryan Johnson at [email protected]
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
Work alongside the CEO to help plan and direct all of the company’s activities.
If you were on our team, this is what you would have done last month
Explored potential collaborations, analyzed company data generation and analytics flow, recruiting, market research, data analysis, product development deep dive, team coordination and 15 other things that make up the fabric of a startup.
Experience
- Neuroscience background
- Demonstrated tenaciousness, resourcefulness and the ability to solve the impossible
- Startup familiarity
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
How To Apply:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Brain science is the new rocket science.
We’re building the world's first neuroprosthesis for cognitive repair and improvement in the hippocampus using electrode data from populations of single neurons.
What we’re looking for: Work with our team to build out the company software infrastructure across the whole stack from server-side to front-end.
If you were on our team, this is what you would have done last month
Built a distributed processing pipeline for neural data on AWS, specced out the design and led implementation of a secure multi site experimental data sharing system, led computational neuroscientists in the transition from Matlab based research code to Python based production code and a multitude of developments that more often than not involve direct exposure to the details of data flow in the brain.
Experience
- Experience with numerical and science-oriented Python, deployment on AWS
- Broad familiarity with build/dev tools and languages
- Independence and great team skills, resourcefulness
- Startup familiarity
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
How To Apply:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Brain science is the new rocket science.
We’re building the world's first neuroprosthesis for cognitive repair and improvement in the hippocampus using electrode data from populations of single neurons.
What we’re looking for: a data & algorithms / machine learning specialist with an exceptional aptitude for regularization and nonlinear model fitting.
If you were on our team, this is what you would have done last month
Potential projects include building classification and regression models for neural spiking data, decoding of the spatio-temporal patterns of spikes with respect to behavior, analyzing large-scale complex neural data, building mixed model of point-process signals, and other data-driven modeling projects.
You are the right person for this job if you are:
- Strong in linear algebra/matrices, basis transformations, model order / dimension reduction, numerical methods, regression analysis, data analysis, nonlinear mathematical modeling
- Adept at rapid prototyping, model generation, and testing
- Results oriented, driven, flexible, adaptable
Bonus points for skills and experience in:
- Machine learning (e.g. Bayesian, deep learning), time series analysis, pattern recognition, and point-process signal processing is highly preferred
- Either electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, statistics, computer science, computational neuroscience, or related fields
- Neural circuit modeling / exploration (e.g. discovering functional connectivity), control theory, system identification, compartmental neural modeling (e.g. NEURON)
- Python, Matlab, Linux/Unix, Git, Distributed Computing
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
How To Apply:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Brain science is the new rocket science.
We’re building the world's first neuroprosthesis for cognitive repair and improvement in the human brain using electrode data from populations of single neurons.
What we’re looking for: machine learning / AI engineer with an exceptional aptitude for model fitting, regularization and hierarchical learning.
If you were on our team, this is what you would have done last month
Potential projects include building classification and regression models for neural spiking data, learning, decoding of the spatio-temporal patterns of spikes with respect to behavior, analyzing large-scale complex neural data, building mixed model of point-process signals, and other data-driven modeling projects.
You are the right person for this job if you are:
- Strong in machine learning (e.g. Bayesian, deep learning), time series analysis, pattern recognition, and point-process signal processing.
- Adept at linear algebra/matrices, basis transformations, model order / dimension reduction, numerical methods, regression analysis, data analysis, nonlinear mathematical modeling
- Adept at rapid prototyping, model generation, and testing
- Results oriented, driven, flexible, adaptable
- Must be willing and able to begin work on location in Los Angeles, CA, within weeks of hire
Bonus points for skills and experience in:
- Either computer science, statistics, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, or related fields
- Neural circuit modeling / exploration (e.g. discovering functional connectivity), control theory, system identification, compartmental neural modeling (e.g. NEURON)
- Python, Matlab, Linux/Unix, Git, Distributed Computing
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
How To Apply:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Brain science is the new rocket science!
We’re building the world's first neuroprosthesis for cognitive repair and improvement in the hippocampus using electrode data from populations of single neurons.
What we’re looking for: a leading architect for our neural interfaces exploration team with exceptional collaborative networking and problem solving skills.
If you were on our team, this is what you would have done last month
Working with our modeling and experimental teams, and with our scientific advisors, to (a) build the core team for interfaces exploration, and (b) discover or create a path for near-term, medium-term and long-term neural interface technology on a ‘Moore’s Law’ improvement curve toward whole brain coverage for bidirectional information transfer.
Working with the cross-disciplinary members of our team, which includes professors at the University of Southern California (USC), to drive a neural system identification modeling platform that is pushing the state-of-the-art in neurocognitive therapeutics.
You are the right person for this job if you have:
- Excellent personal communication skills and a penchant for building extensive and useful strategic networks of contacts and collaborators; builder of effective teams.
- A knack for identifying those who have a problem and are looking for a solution, as well as those who have a solution and are looking for the right problem.
- Proven problem-solving skills including the ability to find workarounds and the capacity to consider many/all options.
- A self-critical and highly collaborative personality (e.g. eagerness to discover personal and group blind spots).
- Multi-disciplinary fluency.
We’d also love it if you have:
- Prior work demonstrating ‘architect’ skills & characteristics (e.g. Marblestone et al (2013), Physical principles for scalable neural recording).
- An extensive existing network of contacts with domain specialist to leverage.
- A technical/analytical professional background, e.g. physics/biophysics, computational neuroscience.
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
How To Apply:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Brain science is the new rocket science!
We’re building the world's first neuroprosthesis for cognitive repair and improvement in the hippocampus using electrode data from populations of single neurons.
What we’re looking for: A senior scientist to build and lead a research team that lays the scientific foundation for developing and bringing to market this neuroprosthesis.
If you were on our team, this is what you would have done last month
- Develop and lead an experimental research program for neural data production (e.g. human clinical studies, possible other experimental studies, design experimental protocols, outcome evaluation)
- Build and manage our experimental research team to carry out every aspect of studies as needed, including coordinating with external research teams and vendors for study conduct.
You are the right person for this job if you have:
- Industry experience performing research that supports early-stage product concepts and development of a commercial neurotech device
- Experience working with cross-disciplinary teams developing, refining, and optimizing technology from proof of concept
- Built, led and managed a preclinical/clinical multidisciplinary neuroscience research team (including biomedical engineers, neuroscientists, etc,), especially one involved in intracranial work
- Managed and led multi-site, multi-investigator experiments, and managed research carried out in-house or through external vendors
- Built and managed close collaborations with other industry/academic research teams as well as clinicians
- A strong existing network of contacts in the neurotech / neurostimulation area to facilitate collaborations
- Experience working in a fast-paced high growth entrepreneurial organization
- Drive and strategic vision, able to connect the business needs of the company to results-oriented research activities
We’d also love it if you have:
- Experience working closely with regulatory teams, clinical and medical affairs teams to prepare for clinical trials and commercial launch
We’re assuming:
- You’re a good writer, a great communicator and are generally technologically proficient, organized, and have excellent management skills.
We expect not only that you meet our prerequisites on skills and mission alignment, but also that you thrive in a meritocracy of mutual peer review within a first-class team which includes professors and clinicians at the University of Southern California (USC). We expect that you take responsibility for your projects, demonstrate excellence, vision, and diligent but creative invention.
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
How To Apply:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Brain science is the new rocket science.
We’re building the world's first neuroprosthesis for cognitive repair and improvement in the hippocampus using electrode data from populations of single neurons.
What we’re looking for: A neuroscientist who excels at neural data collection and analysis, with specific expertise in intracranial neural recordings in human clinical studies.
If you were on our team, this is what you would have done last month
Design of all aspects of human intracranial studies including hardware setup and configuration, neural recording and stimulation protocols, and behavioral task design. Act as a liaison with the modeling group to ensure neural data is collected in a manner that supports model testing and development. Support development of behavioral tasks, including implementation on iPad. Oversee purchasing and inventory of supplies needed for clinical studies.
Involvement in clinical studies with patients and analysis of neural recording data.
You are the right person for this job if you have:
- Experience with intracranial recording (e.g., BlackRock systems) and data analysis required. (Experience with single-unit recording and neurostimulation preferred.)
- Programming skills and experience with statistical analysis software.
- Great communication ability, allowing you to work effectively with multiple collaborators.
- Drive, flexibility, adaptability, and an emphasis on results.
We expect not only that you meet our prerequisites on skills and mission alignment, but that you thrive in a meritocracy of mutual peer review within a first-class team which includes professors and clinicians at the University of Southern California (USC). We expect that you take responsibility for your projects, demonstrate excellence, vision, and diligent but creative invention.
How We Roll:
We’re working to build an extraordinarily talented team to work on the most consequential technological development of our time: human intelligence (HI). Our culture is defined by a shared expectation of being exceptional in all that we do. We value transparency to build trust, feedback to improve, and intense devotion to achieve our goals.
We mutually strive to build an empowering work environment that is emulation worthy.
We find our mission incredibly meaningful and challenging.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision
- Generous vacation policy
- Matching 401k
- Monthly contributions to student loan debt
- Company paid life insurance and short term disability
How To Apply:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If this is the most exciting endeavor you can imagine being involved with and you’re exceptional at what you do, write to us and tell us what you envision!
We’ll be expanding the team quickly and will need a much broader set of skills.