Job description
Beacon Biosignals is on a mission to revolutionize precision medicine for the brain. We are the leading at-home EEG platform supporting clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our FDA 510(k)-cleared Dreem EEG headband and AI algorithms enable quantitative biomarker discovery and implementation. Beacon’s Clinico-EEG database contains EEG data from nearly 100,000 patients, and our cloud-native analytics platform powers large-scale RWD/RWE retrospective and predictive studies. Beacon Biosignals is changing the way that patients are treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.
Beacon Biosignals is seeking a neuroscientist to help us collect, ingest, analyze, and interpret petabytes of EEG data to drive advancements in brain health. This role is part of Beacon’s Data Science Group, a diverse set of talented, dedicated individuals with expertise across neuroscience, biostatistics, data wrangling, and more, who collaborate across the organization and externally to answer scientific questions with data. In this role, you’ll work in cross-functional teams to support Beacon’s Life Sciences engagements with industry partners that power novel therapies for patients with neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. You’ll also collaborate with scientists, engineers, and clinicians to draw meaningful insights from real world data and accelerate neurobiomarker discovery. This role reports to the manager of the Data Science Group.
Beacon’s robust asynchronous work practices ensure a first-class remote work experience, but we also have in-person office hubs located in Boston, New York City, and Paris. For this position, candidates based in the United States are preferred to minimize logistical hurdles and maximize timezone overlap with colleagues and partners.
What success looks like:
- Collaborate closely with teams of neuroscientists, data scientists, engineers, and other subject matter experts to develop statistical analysis plans for clinical trials, execute analyses, and write up results and interpretations.
- Co-author scientific reports whose impact pushes the field past contemporary limitations.
- Deliver clear and impactful data visualizations and presentations to varied audiences, both internal and external.
- Write and review reusable, documented, tested code that produces polished, high quality analytical results for our partners and powers our core computational pipelines.
- Leverage Beacon’s products and your own subject matter expertise to inform analysis planning and execution.
- Dig into large, messy, unfamiliar datasets, document their idiosyncrasies, and harmonize them with Beacon’s datastore.
- Lead and support the scientific and technical aspects of multiple concurrent studies, including both planning and execution.
What you will bring:
- You have hands-on experience with neural signal data, including storing, processing, and analyzing it to answer scientific questions.
- You’ve seen how artifacts in the signal can affect results, and you have experience handling them.
- You’re familiar with and/or excited to learn about the neurophysiology of sleep and how it’s dysregulated in various neurological and psychiatric diseases.
- You’re familiar with statistical hypothesis testing and modeling, including interpretation and model diagnostics.
- You’re comfortable designing and overseeing experiments that leverage data across disparate sources and modalities to answer scientific questions.
- You’re painfully aware that thoughtful data curation is a prerequisite to analysis results that hold up under practical application.
- You love teamwork and recognize that people can achieve more together than individually. You value close collaboration, open communication, and tight feedback loops to ensure you and your team are working together effectively and doing your best work.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication and listening skills.
- You have experience presenting to varied audiences; you’ve learned the hard way what does and does not make an understandable and impactful presentation.
- You stay calm and organized to meet tight deadlines amidst ambiguity.
- You have experience writing code meant to be read and used by others, and are familiar with both the “how” and “why” of version control, unit tests, and debugging.
- You’re familiar with and/or are excited to work with the technologies that power Beacon’s data and reporting systems, including Julia, AWS, Superset, Pandoc, SQL, and GraphQL.
- You prefer open source dependencies over closed source dependencies because you have a compulsion to read the code you’re running.
- You’re comfortable working in a highly asynchronous hybrid work environment, and have demonstrated success doing so in the past.
The base salary range for this role is determined based on past experience, specific skills and qualifications. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes equity, PTO and other benefits.
At Beacon, we’ve found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we’re always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.
