Company Overview
Echo 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.
Team Culture
Join 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.
SUMMARY
We are seeking an experienced Applied AI Scientist, with a focus on language & context modeling, to join our team. The person who fills this role will apply ML/AI principles and practices to designing, developing, fine-tuning, personalizing, and miniaturizing flexible language and context models for use within brain-computer interface applications to have real-world impact on patients with physical disabilities.
PRIMARY ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Language modeling
- Leverage a deep understanding of LMs to create custom solutions for brain-computer interface applications, including LLM fine-tuning, customization, and dissection
- Explore a variety of LM strategies of various scales and complexities for tailored integration into other decoding pipelines
- Characterize agentic AI tools for suitability in product user interfaces
- Context modeling
- Design and build ML pipelines capable of performing flexible, real-time inference with multiple input streams
- Deploy custom or off-the-shelf state-of-the-art models for parsing audio, video, and application states
- Perform context engineering to aggregate and model contextual information for use in downstream decoders
- General ML practices & company standards
- Model dissection and interpretability to extract information-rich latent representations from large models (e.g. pretrained foundation models) for broad and generalized use in other models
- Model miniaturization for low-latency and computationally inexpensive processing
- Work collaboratively and effectively within a small, cross-functional team to hit both R&D and product-focused goals
- Maintain versioned, clear, and highly documented code, analysis pipelines, and results for maximum interpretability and reproducibility
- Contribute to documentation for a Quality Management System, as appropriate and relevant to ML implementations that become part of medical products
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Math, Engineering, Data Science, or other relevant quantitative field
- A minimum of 5 years of combined academic and professional ML experience
- Experience deploying ML models in an industry setting
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying LM models in an industry setting
- Experience designing, training, and evaluating transformers
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch
- Proficiency in using GPUs and GPU software toolkits to accelerate ML pipelines
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working with reinforcement learning, LLM alignment and safety, and multilingual modeling
- Experience developing foundation models and applying transfer-learning techniques
- Experience working with high-dimensional time-series datasets
- Experience working on medical or clinical applications
- Experience translating methods described in scientific publications to available datasets
- Experience working with speech-recognition, video-processing, and application-parsing models
What We Offer
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An opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge projects to transform patients’ lives in a highly collaborative work environment.
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Competitive compensation, including stock options.
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Comprehensive benefits package.
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401(k) program with matching contributions.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Confidentiality
All applications will be treated confidentially. Applicants may be asked to sign an NDA after the initial stages of the interview process.