Scientist - Mental Health & Physiological Sensing

2 weeks ago


Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Charles River Analytics Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Scientist to join our team at Charles River Analytics. As a Scientist, you will play a key role in addressing challenging problems in domains related to human state assessment, performance optimization, physiological event detection, health and wellness, and medical diagnostics.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support the evaluation of research ideas and document results in a form suitable for peer-reviewed publication
  • Develop feature extraction methodologies and implement them in code for real-time data ingestion, processing, and analysis
  • Pursue novel applications of technologies to address challenging real-world problems, including establishing new areas of research
  • Contribute to proposals, reports, and papers, and present work at briefings and conferences when appropriate
  • Assist with management of programs, including working with other scientists and engineers to set deadlines and keep projects on tight schedules
  • Work with software engineers to develop technology solutions
  • Interact with customers, users, and domain experts to analyze and understand challenges
Requirements
  • Experience in psychiatry, drug dependence, and/or mental health research or clinical practice
  • Experience solving challenging problems in domains related to human state assessment, performance optimization, physiological event detection, health and wellness, and/or medical diagnostics
  • PhD in Neuroscience/Computational Neuroscience/Cognitive Science/Psychology, Human Factors Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field
  • Experience working for or collaborating with a DoD entity such as DARPA, AFRL, NRO, ARL, or similar
  • Demonstrated ability to lead innovative, self-directed research, manage relationships with customers and users, and identify and pursue emerging opportunities
  • Ability to apply scientific theories to user needs and work well with a software engineering team to define the direction of technical solutions
  • Experience developing applications or embedded systems that require input from hardware sensors
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Proficiency in at least one of the following data science software tools: pandas, tensorflow, scikit-learn, luigi, nipype, mne, statsmodels, pymc3
  • Strong statistics background and familiarity with common data manipulation and statistics packages (e.g., statsmodel, lme4, glmnet, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas)
  • Familiarity with machine learning techniques and software (e.g., scikit learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras)
  • Exposure to data science best practices including reproducibility tools (git, conda environments, docker, virtual machines), dashboard visualization (Tableau, R Shiny, D3), analysis narrative tools (jupyter, R Notebook), and graphing tools
  • Ability to identify and articulate creative and technically-sound solutions to challenging scientific and operational human-machine system problems
  • Proven ability to generate proposals, publications, or similar written materials
  • Strong verbal and written skills to support proposal writing, interaction with customers, and presentations at technical conferences
  • Ability to work onsite 3x per week (60% onsite / 40% remote) in Cambridge, MA
  • U.S. Citizenship
Preferred Qualifications
  • 3 or more years of relevant experience (e.g., industry, postdoctoral fellowship)
  • A record of publications in any of the above fields
  • Proficiency in one of the following software languages: C/C++, R, Matlab
  • Experience with machine learning, specifically in time series domains
  • Teaching experience in a related field (e.g., statistics, research methods)
  • Human subjects research program design, implementation, and completion
  • Experience directly interacting with customers and/or users, including knowledge elicitation experience
About Charles River Analytics

Charles River Analytics is a 100% employee-owned company that thrives on collaboration and values each employee-owner. We offer competitive compensation plus bonuses, profit-sharing, and an attractive benefits package. Our benefits include 100% employer-paid medical and dental insurance as well as vision, life, and disability insurance; paid maternity/paternity leave; tuition reimbursement; monthly gym allowance; free parking; generous paid time off; and a casual environment. We are also accessible by public transportation. We offer a hybrid schedule (60% onsite / 40% remote) with flexibility. At Charles River, we truly value work-life balance.



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