Position Description
Are you an experienced quantitative engineer with a strong math and probability background who has designed and built machine learning products from scratch, contributed to successful start-ups, and is ready to build meaningful brain healthcare products and medical devices (Software as a Medical Device)? As our Senior Statistical Engineer, you will help architect and implement the quantitative analysis of audio, video, touchscreen, and motion sensor recordings. You’ll design and implement novel methods to quantify key brain behaviors for the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Responsibilities
Participate in diverse projects involving exploratory data analysis, statistical inference, and predictive modeling
Apply risk analysis methodologies to problems in neurological and psychiatric health
Design and code feature extraction with open source and internally developed software
Develop calculations and built-in QA to ensure reliability and scalability
Provide support to internal and external clients when planning data collection, including framing the problem, experimental design, sample size calculations, and identifying appropriate populations and sampling strategies
Develop reports and visualizations to address clients’ scientific and engineering problems and to support litigation
Participate in the writing of grant proposals and statistical reports for the NIH, FDA, NSF and other agencies
Requirements
MS or PhD with two years' experience in both computer science and statistics, biostatistics, or a related field
Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate statistical concepts to non-technical audiences
Experience or capabilities in such subject areas as statistical data mining, analysis of reliability and life data, experimental design, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, or quality control/improvement
Ability to work independently and in multidisciplinary teams
Experience building stable, scalable consumer software
Passion for clean, well-documented code
Experience working at an early stage startup
Hands-on development while leading and mentoring junior team members
Experience successfully developing and launching consumer products
Qualities that will bring success to the role
Excellent communication skills
Strong ability to prioritize and maintain focus
Ability to accurately estimate work to deliver milestones on time
Compensation
Competitive salary, equity, healthcare coverage, flexible hours, sick leave and vacation