{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ea644240dd6f16467d8fe338","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ea644240dd6f16467d8fe338","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ea644240dd6f16467d8fe338","title":"Applied AI Scientist - Brain Data & Transformers","description":"Company Overview\r\nEcho Neurotechnologies is an exciting new startup in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) space, driving innovation through advanced hardware engineering and AI solutions. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge technologies that restore autonomy to people living with disabilities and improve their quality of life.\r\nTeam Culture\r\nJoin a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable and motivated professionals. Our early-stage environment offers the opportunity to take ownership of broad decisions with significant and long-lasting impact. We emphasize continuous learning and growth, fostering cross-functional collaboration where your contributions are vital to our success.\r\nJob Summary\r\nWe are seeking an experienced Applied AI Scientist to join our team. The person who fills this role will apply ML & AI principles and practices to large datasets of time-series data and associated metadata to create powerful encoding and decoding models to interpret and understand brain activity, which will drive scientific discovery as well as product implementations to have real-world impact on patients with physical disabilities.\r\nKey Responsibilities\r\nModeling brain data and associated metadata to obtain insights into existing and future datasets and implement high-performance inference and translation pipelines\r\nDesigning and creating state-of-the-art transformers and other ML models to decode brain signals into control signals for digital devices\r\nKeeping up with the latest AI techniques and being able to quickly assess the relevance and utility of these techniques, including with prototypical evaluations with company datasets\r\nWorking collaboratively within a small team to explore and iterate on models, design the company's data-science platforms, and integrate ML models into product applications\r\nMaintaining versioned, clear, and highly documented code, analysis pipelines, and results for maximum interpretability and reproducibility\r\nContribute to documentation for a Quality Management System, as appropriate and relevant to ML implementations that become part of medical products\r\nRequired Qualifications\r\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Math, Engineering, Data Science, or other relevant quantitative field\r\nA minimum of 5 years of combined academic and professional ML experience\r\nExperience designing, developing, and deploying ML models in an industry setting with large-scale, distributed ML platforms\r\nExperience designing, training, and evaluating transformers\r\nExperience working with high-dimensional time-series data, state-space models, or foundation models\r\nProficiency in Python and PyTorch\r\nProficiency in using GPUs and GPU software toolkits to accelerate ML pipelines\r\nPreferred Qualifications\r\nExperience working on medical or clinical applications\r\nExperience translating methods described in scientific publications to available datasets\r\nWhat We Offer\r\nAn opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge projects to transform patients' lives in a highly collaborative work environment.\r\nCompetitive compensation, including stock options.\r\nComprehensive benefits package.\r\n401(k) program with matching contributions.\r\nEqual Opportunity Employer\r\nEcho Neurotechnologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.\r\nConfidentiality\r\nAll applications will be treated confidentially. 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