AI Neuroscientist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Establish expert reasoning for research inquiries and R&D choices.

• Compose gold-standard responses supported by a solid neuroscientific rationale.

• Develop realistic research scenarios ranging from hypothesis and target selection to experimental design, data processing, and inference.

• Assemble multimodal neuroscience data collections.

• Combine basic-science and disease tasks to evaluate the transition from normal function to pathology.

• Collaborate with software engineers to design benchmark workflows.

• Evaluate model-system and unit-of-analysis selections.

• Assess the translation of findings from rodent, iPSC, or organoid studies to human diseases.

• Resolve disputed literature claims and pinpoint experiments that could clarify them.

• Analyze agent reasoning step by step.

• Detect reasoning errors and articulate expert alternatives along with evidence requirements.

• Evaluate agent confidence and incentivize calibrated uncertainty.

⛳️ Requirements

• PhD or MD/PhD in neuroscience or a closely related discipline.

• Practical neuroscience research experience with direct data analysis and a publication record.

• Direct experience in analyzing raw data across at least two modalities: electrophysiology, optical imaging, EEG/sEEG, neuroimaging, single-cell or spatial omics, neuropathology, or quantitative behavior.

• Extensive expertise in at least one domain: systems/circuit, cellular/molecular, clinical/translational, or computational neuroscience.

• Proficient understanding across system levels.

• Strong grasp of experimental design and statistical analysis.

• Competency in utilizing AI agents.

• Ability to discern scientifically invalid model reasoning.

• Practical knowledge of iPSC neurons, organoids, rodents, NHP, and human cohorts.

• Familiarity with Allen Brain Cell Atlas/BICAN, DANDI/NWB, OpenNeuro/BIDS, IBL, ADNI, PPMI, UK Biobank, and ClinVar/gnomAD is advantageous.

• US citizenship, permanent residency, or OPT-holder status; no STEM OPT extension or sponsorship support available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Guaranteed pay for the first four weeks during the ramp-up period.

• Unlimited earning potential.

• Full-time work with a flexible schedule.

• Daily catered lunch and dinner for onsite employees.

• Office located by the waterfront in Mission Bay.

• Monthly parking provided when available.

• Company outings most months.

• Team off-site events.

• Opportunities for participation in the latch run club, cycling, boxing, ice skating, and soccer.