ML Applied Scientist - Neuroscience

Department: Precision

Location: Santa Clara, California

Description

Precision is building a direct connection between the human brain and computers, to benefit the hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffering from neurological conditions. Established in 2021, we are a leader in the development and commercialization of brain–computer interfaces (BCI).

As a Precision employee, you will be collaborating with experts across a diverse array of fields–including neurosurgery, mechanical engineering, machine learning, and microfabrication–to push the boundaries of what is possible. You will be joining a well capitalized and fast-moving company. In the two years since Precision's founding, we have built and validated a product and have begun human trials in partnership with some of the country's leading neurosurgery programs. And you will be working toward a deeply meaningful goal: restoring function to people living with devastating neurological conditions, including stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and neurodegenerative disease such as ALS. Our platform will enable these individuals to regain independence, communicate with loved ones, and return to work.

We are seeking an ML Applied Scientist - Neuroscience to join our mission of advancing brain-computer interface technology by implementing highly reliable motor/speech neural decoding algorithms. As an ML Applied Scientist, you will play a crucial role in developing the algorithms that enable our revolutionary BCI platform to transform patients' lives. You'll work on complex technical challenges at the intersection of neuroscience and computing, from real-time neural signal processing to intuitive user interfaces that help patients regain their independence.

This position is on-site at least 3 days a week at our Santa Clara or New York offices. We are unable to consider remote workers or people not currently based in the United States, and who do not have working rights. Travel up to 20% to clinical sites and to collaborate with team mates in other sites.

Key Responsibilities

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  Literature Review - stay at the cutting edge of neural decoding and relevant neuroscience research. Conduct periodic updates to the team on the evolving state of the art.


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  Experiment Design - design experimental protocols to gather training data. Collaborate with software engineers to implement these protocols. Collaborate closely with the clinical team to execute these protocols.


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  Neural Decoding - build proof of concept demonstrations indicating the feasibility of decoding various user intentions. This includes determining the ideal array placement, developing signal cleaning algorithms and training deep learning models to decode signals.
  


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  ML Pipeline design - build cloud and local ML pipelines to clean data, perform model training and to validate model quality. Work with software engineers to integrate these with the overall ML ops pipeline.


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  Product Development - collaborate with other ML engineers to integrate the proof of concept neural decoding ML models into production deep learning models. Work with software engineers, product managers and UX to integrate the algorithms into the overall product while meeting product and code quality requirements as well as delivery dates.


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  Execution - participate in project planning, team meetings, sprint meetings, code reviews, architecture meetings, create status updates. Also create and maintain documentation required by regulatory bodies like the FDA.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• BS in computer science or equivalent, PhD in neural decoding of either speech or motor signals, with extensive coursework and/or research in deep learning. Ideally 2+ years industry/post doc experience.


• Experience with designing and conducting clinical experiments, ideally involving human subjects.


• Strong python programming skills using frameworks like python, numpy and pytorch to train deep learning models.


• Strong experience leveraging cloud platforms for training deep learning models at scale. AWS experience is strongly preferred.


• Strong deep learning fundamentals and a broad knowledge of deep learning algorithms. Knowledge of state of the art ASR/NLP algorithms is a strong plus.


• Experience with digital signal processing and neural signal preprocessing.


• Publication record at reputable neuroscience and/or ML conferences


• Strong plus: knowledge of C++, realtime systems, embedded systems


• Strong plus: Medical device experience


• Strong plus: working with hardware

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