Research Assistant, Optical Physiology and Neurotechnology
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Key content:
- Role description: engineering-oriented science role, recording, controlling, analyzing, visualizing neural activity at cellular and subcellular resolution. Involves careful thinking about parameters, meticulous execution, sharp observation, figuring out which parameters to optimize to improve recording quality and throughput. Report to Head of Optical Physiology, work with team, using logic and evidence to advance work to boost performance. Position intended for someone who wants to redefine what is possible in cellular activity imaging, performing experiments using existing tools. Multidisciplinary, ideal for person who enjoys problem solving across intellectual boundaries, concepts and hands-on debugging. Requires systematic documentation, analysis, iterative problem solving to arrive at working protocols, apply them, share them.
- Execute and optimize cellular activity imaging experiments.
- Produce high-quality voltage imaging and synaptic recording data from iPSC-derived neurons and human and mouse brain slices.
- Characterize optogenetics and voltage sensor performance.
- Evaluate gene expression systems.
- Documentation and training: keep protocol records that others can execute, with reasoning behind each parameter.
- Education: B.S. or B.A. in bioengineering, neuroscience, biophysics, chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, or related field.
- Direct hands-on experience with neural tissue handling, cell culture, histology, fluorescent microscopy.
- Demonstrated ability to build, modify, troubleshoot, improve complex experimental systems.
- Excellent experimental judgment and scientific rigor.
- Strong data analysis skills (Python, C++, MATLAB, ImageJ, or similar).
- Direct experience with image analysis.
- Hands-on experience with neuronal activity recordings, e.g., electrophysiology, calcium imaging, voltage imaging, optogenetics.
- Experience with human iPSC differentiation and mouse brain slice recording.
- Familiarity with viral and nonviral gene expression systems.
- Mission statement: disorders of brain affect >1B people, urgency, hypercollaborative, impact over short-term markers, creativity and failure stepping stones, strong opinions weakly held, solve real engineering problems inventing fast or using existing solutions, collaboration essential, explore unknown, make mistakes, own them, learn, improve, excel. Recruiting team exemplifying values. Ideal candidate: scientist-engineer crossing disciplinary boundaries, intellectually curious, relentlessly practical, happiest solving never-solved-before problems, strong detail orientation, exceptional organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication skills, good at writing, can work within team and independently, prioritize and multitask, self-motivation, commitment to high quality standards, service-oriented mindset, good judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, open to giving/receiving feedback constructively to advance missions and personal growth.
- This is an in-person job. Flexible hours may be required at times.
- Chance to contribute to core scientific pipelines of new research institute alongside adventurous scientists, real autonomy, direct line to people setting scientific agenda. Institute organized around end-to-end runs carrying tissue from intake to reconstruction worth simulating, pipeline sits in middle of every one. Contribute to addressing important unmet medical need as part of initial team. Learn lots of things not learnable any other way as you solve problems, build, work with others. As Mindspan grows, role expected to grow. Excited to invest in someone who wants increasing responsibility over time.
- Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and family benefits, and a matching retirement contribution.
- Pay: Competitive salary ($75,000 to $110,000), depending on experience.
- Schedule: Not explicitly given besides "in-person job. Flexible hours may be required at times." That's schedule info: flexible hours may be required. So we can include Schedule section with that.
We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" etc. Pay is given, so include Pay. Benefits given, include Benefits. Schedule given (flexible hours may be required), include Schedule.
Now we need to decide sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (maybe education/experience?), Qualifications (maybe similar), Skills (technical), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not repeat content unnecessarily. We need to preserve all substantive info. Could combine some sections but must not omit info.
We need to decide what goes where.
Typically: About the role: brief paragraph summarizing role.
Responsibilities: list of duties (execute experiments, produce data, characterize, evaluate, documentation, etc.)
Requirements: education (B.S./B.A. in fields) maybe also experience? But we have many experience items; could go under Qualifications or Skills.
Qualifications: maybe the combination of education and experience.
Skills: technical skills (data analysis, programming, image analysis, etc.)
But we must avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting includes many bullet-like items: education, hands-on experience, ability to build/modify/troubleshoot, experimental judgment, data analysis skills, image analysis, neuronal activity recordings experience, iPSC differentiation, brain slice recording, familiarity with gene expression systems. Those could be under Requirements or Qualifications.
We could have:
- About the role: paragraph describing role and mission.
- Responsibilities: bullet list of duties (execute and optimize experiments, produce data, characterize optogenetics/voltage sensor performance, evaluate gene expression systems, documentation/training).
- Requirements: bullet list of education and core experience (B.S./B.A. in fields, direct hands-on experience with neural tissue handling, cell culture, histology, fluorescent microscopy, demonstrated ability to build/modify/troubleshoot complex experimental systems, excellent experimental judgment and scientific rigor).
- Qualifications: maybe bullet list of additional experience (hands-on experience with neuronal activity recordings, experience with human iPSC differentiation and mouse brain slice recording, familiarity with viral/nonviral gene expression systems).
- Skills: bullet list of technical skills (strong data analysis skills Python/C++/MATLAB/ImageJ, direct experience with image analysis, etc.) plus soft skills (organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication, writing, teamwork, independent work, prioritization, multitasking, self-motivation, commitment to quality, service-oriented mindset, judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, openness to feedback).
- Benefits: bullet list (comprehensive health, dental, vision, family benefits, matching retirement contribution).
- Pay: paragraph with salary range.
- Schedule: paragraph (in-person job, flexible hours may be required at times).
We must not include sections that are empty or filler. All have content.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no markdown fences.
We'll use
for each section heading.
Inside each section, we can use
for prose or
- for lists.
We need to preserve all substantive information; we must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact phrasing? Not necessarily exact but must not lose detail. We'll paraphrase but keep meaning.
We must avoid boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present.
Let's craft.
First, About the role: combine description: engineering-oriented science role recording/controlling/analyzing/visualizing neural activity at cellular/subcellular resolution; involves thinking about parameters, meticulous execution, sharp observation, optimizing parameters to improve recording quality and throughput; report to Head of Optical Physiology, work with team using logic/evidence to boost performance; role for someone wanting to redefine cellular activity imaging, performing experiments with existing tools; multidisciplinary, problem solving across intellectual boundaries, concepts and hands-on debugging; requires systematic documentation, analysis, iterative problem solving to arrive at working protocols, apply, share them.
We'll put that in a
.
Responsibilities: list:
- Execute and optimize cellular activity imaging experiments.
- Produce high-quality voltage imaging and synaptic recording data from iPSC-derived neurons and human and mouse brain slices.
- Characterize optogenetics and voltage sensor performance.
- Evaluate gene expression systems.
- Documentation and training: keep protocol records that others can execute, with reasoning behind each parameter.
We'll use
- .
Requirements: list:
- B.S. or B.A. in bioengineering, neuroscience, biophysics, chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, or a related field.
- Direct hands-on experience with neural tissue handling, cell culture, histology, and fluorescent microscopy.
- Demonstrated ability to build, modify, troubleshoot, and improve complex experimental systems.
- Excellent experimental judgment and scientific rigor.
Qualifications: list:
- Hands-on experience with neuronal activity recordings (electrophysiology, calcium imaging, voltage imaging, optogenetics).
- Experience with human iPSC differentiation and mouse brain slice recording.
- Familiarity with viral and nonviral gene expression systems.
Skills: list:
- Strong data analysis skills (Python, C++, MATLAB, ImageJ, or similar).
- Direct experience with image analysis.
- Exceptional organizational, planning, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Good at writing; able to work within a team and independently; able to prioritize and multitask as needed.
- Self-motivation, commitment to high quality standards, and service-oriented mindset.
- Good judgment balancing flexibility and focus, action and planning, speed and thoughtfulness.
- Open to giving and receiving feedback constructively to advance scientific missions and personal growth.
Benefits: list:
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and family benefits.
- Matching retirement contribution.
Pay:
Competitive salary ($75,000 to $110,000), depending on experience.
Schedule: This is an in-person job; flexible hours may be required at times.
We must ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The mission statement about disorders affecting >1B people, urgency, hypercollaborative, impact over short-term markers, creativity/failure stepping stones, strong opinions weakly held, solve real engineering problems inventing fast or using existing solutions, collaboration essential, explore unknown, make mistakes, own them, learn, improve, excel, recruiting team exemplifying values, ideal candidate scientist-engineer crossing disciplinary boundaries, intellectually curious, relentlessly practical, happiest solving never-solved-before problems, strong detail orientation, exceptional organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication skills, good at writing, can work within team and independently, prioritize and multitask, self-motivation, commitment to high quality standards, service-oriented mindset, good judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, open to feedback constructively to advance missions and personal growth. Some of these are covered in Skills (organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication, writing, teamwork/independent, prioritize/multitask, self-motivation, commitment to quality, service-oriented mindset, judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, openness to feedback). Also we missed mention of "intellectually curious, relentlessly practical, happiest when solving problems that have never been solved before." Could add to Skills or About the role. Also "strong detail orientation". Could add to Skills.
Also mention "We operate with a sense of urgency, even as we look to understand the brain at its most fundamental levels." Could be in About the role.
Also "We are hypercollaborative, and focused on impact over short-term markers of productivity." Could be in About the role.
Also "Creativity and failure are the stepping stones to scale, and working together with “strong opinions, weakly held” is our style." Could be in About the role.
Also "We solve real engineering problems the best way we can: inventing fast when we have to, and using good existing solutions where they exist." Could be in About the role.
Also "We believe hard problems only yield to many disciplines working together, so collaboration is not optional." Could be in About the role.
Also "We expect people to explore the unknown, which means making mistakes daily, owning them, and learning from them to improve and excel." Could be in About the role.
Also "We are recruiting
for prose. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Role description: engineering-oriented science role, recording, controlling, analyzing, visualizing neural activity at cellular and subcellular resolution. Involves careful thinking about parameters, meticulous execution, sharp observation, figuring out which parameters to optimize to improve recording quality and throughput. Report to Head of Optical Physiology, work with team, using logic and evidence to advance work to boost performance. Position intended for someone who wants to redefine what is possible in cellular activity imaging, performing experiments using existing tools. Multidisciplinary, ideal for person who enjoys problem solving across intellectual boundaries, concepts and hands-on debugging. Requires systematic documentation, analysis, iterative problem solving to arrive at working protocols, apply them, share them. - Execute and optimize cellular activity imaging experiments. - Produce high-quality voltage imaging and synaptic recording data from iPSC-derived neurons and human and mouse brain slices. - Characterize optogenetics and voltage sensor performance. - Evaluate gene expression systems. - Documentation and training: keep protocol records that others can execute, with reasoning behind each parameter. - Education: B.S. or B.A. in bioengineering, neuroscience, biophysics, chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, or related field. - Direct hands-on experience with neural tissue handling, cell culture, histology, fluorescent microscopy. - Demonstrated ability to build, modify, troubleshoot, improve complex experimental systems. - Excellent experimental judgment and scientific rigor. - Strong data analysis skills (Python, C++, MATLAB, ImageJ, or similar). - Direct experience with image analysis. - Hands-on experience with neuronal activity recordings, e.g., electrophysiology, calcium imaging, voltage imaging, optogenetics. - Experience with human iPSC differentiation and mouse brain slice recording. - Familiarity with viral and nonviral gene expression systems. - Mission statement: disorders of brain affect >1B people, urgency, hypercollaborative, impact over short-term markers, creativity and failure stepping stones, strong opinions weakly held, solve real engineering problems inventing fast or using existing solutions, collaboration essential, explore unknown, make mistakes, own them, learn, improve, excel. Recruiting team exemplifying values. Ideal candidate: scientist-engineer crossing disciplinary boundaries, intellectually curious, relentlessly practical, happiest solving never-solved-before problems, strong detail orientation, exceptional organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication skills, good at writing, can work within team and independently, prioritize and multitask, self-motivation, commitment to high quality standards, service-oriented mindset, good judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, open to giving/receiving feedback constructively to advance missions and personal growth. - This is an in-person job. Flexible hours may be required at times. - Chance to contribute to core scientific pipelines of new research institute alongside adventurous scientists, real autonomy, direct line to people setting scientific agenda. Institute organized around end-to-end runs carrying tissue from intake to reconstruction worth simulating, pipeline sits in middle of every one. Contribute to addressing important unmet medical need as part of initial team. Learn lots of things not learnable any other way as you solve problems, build, work with others. As Mindspan grows, role expected to grow. Excited to invest in someone who wants increasing responsibility over time. - Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and family benefits, and a matching retirement contribution. - Pay: Competitive salary ($75,000 to $110,000), depending on experience. - Schedule: Not explicitly given besides "in-person job. Flexible hours may be required at times." That's schedule info: flexible hours may be required. So we can include Schedule section with that. We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" etc. Pay is given, so include Pay. Benefits given, include Benefits. Schedule given (flexible hours may be required), include Schedule. Now we need to decide sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (maybe education/experience?), Qualifications (maybe similar), Skills (technical), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat content unnecessarily. We need to preserve all substantive info. Could combine some sections but must not omit info. We need to decide what goes where. Typically: About the role: brief paragraph summarizing role. Responsibilities: list of duties (execute experiments, produce data, characterize, evaluate, documentation, etc.) Requirements: education (B.S./B.A. in fields) maybe also experience? But we have many experience items; could go under Qualifications or Skills. Qualifications: maybe the combination of education and experience. Skills: technical skills (data analysis, programming, image analysis, etc.) But we must avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting includes many bullet-like items: education, hands-on experience, ability to build/modify/troubleshoot, experimental judgment, data analysis skills, image analysis, neuronal activity recordings experience, iPSC differentiation, brain slice recording, familiarity with gene expression systems. Those could be under Requirements or Qualifications. We could have: - About the role: paragraph describing role and mission. - Responsibilities: bullet list of duties (execute and optimize experiments, produce data, characterize optogenetics/voltage sensor performance, evaluate gene expression systems, documentation/training). - Requirements: bullet list of education and core experience (B.S./B.A. in fields, direct hands-on experience with neural tissue handling, cell culture, histology, fluorescent microscopy, demonstrated ability to build/modify/troubleshoot complex experimental systems, excellent experimental judgment and scientific rigor). - Qualifications: maybe bullet list of additional experience (hands-on experience with neuronal activity recordings, experience with human iPSC differentiation and mouse brain slice recording, familiarity with viral/nonviral gene expression systems). - Skills: bullet list of technical skills (strong data analysis skills Python/C++/MATLAB/ImageJ, direct experience with image analysis, etc.) plus soft skills (organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication, writing, teamwork, independent work, prioritization, multitasking, self-motivation, commitment to quality, service-oriented mindset, judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, openness to feedback). - Benefits: bullet list (comprehensive health, dental, vision, family benefits, matching retirement contribution). - Pay: paragraph with salary range. - Schedule: paragraph (in-person job, flexible hours may be required at times). We must not include sections that are empty or filler. All have content. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no markdown fences. We'll use
for each section heading. Inside each section, we can use
for prose or
- for lists.
We need to preserve all substantive information; we must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact phrasing? Not necessarily exact but must not lose detail. We'll paraphrase but keep meaning.
We must avoid boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present.
Let's craft.
First, About the role: combine description: engineering-oriented science role recording/controlling/analyzing/visualizing neural activity at cellular/subcellular resolution; involves thinking about parameters, meticulous execution, sharp observation, optimizing parameters to improve recording quality and throughput; report to Head of Optical Physiology, work with team using logic/evidence to boost performance; role for someone wanting to redefine cellular activity imaging, performing experiments with existing tools; multidisciplinary, problem solving across intellectual boundaries, concepts and hands-on debugging; requires systematic documentation, analysis, iterative problem solving to arrive at working protocols, apply, share them.
We'll put that in a
. Responsibilities: list: - Execute and optimize cellular activity imaging experiments. - Produce high-quality voltage imaging and synaptic recording data from iPSC-derived neurons and human and mouse brain slices. - Characterize optogenetics and voltage sensor performance. - Evaluate gene expression systems. - Documentation and training: keep protocol records that others can execute, with reasoning behind each parameter. We'll use
- .
Requirements: list:
- B.S. or B.A. in bioengineering, neuroscience, biophysics, chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, or a related field.
- Direct hands-on experience with neural tissue handling, cell culture, histology, and fluorescent microscopy.
- Demonstrated ability to build, modify, troubleshoot, and improve complex experimental systems.
- Excellent experimental judgment and scientific rigor.
Qualifications: list:
- Hands-on experience with neuronal activity recordings (electrophysiology, calcium imaging, voltage imaging, optogenetics).
- Experience with human iPSC differentiation and mouse brain slice recording.
- Familiarity with viral and nonviral gene expression systems.
Skills: list:
- Strong data analysis skills (Python, C++, MATLAB, ImageJ, or similar).
- Direct experience with image analysis.
- Exceptional organizational, planning, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Good at writing; able to work within a team and independently; able to prioritize and multitask as needed.
- Self-motivation, commitment to high quality standards, and service-oriented mindset.
- Good judgment balancing flexibility and focus, action and planning, speed and thoughtfulness.
- Open to giving and receiving feedback constructively to advance scientific missions and personal growth.
Benefits: list:
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and family benefits.
- Matching retirement contribution.
Pay:
Competitive salary ($75,000 to $110,000), depending on experience.
Schedule:This is an in-person job; flexible hours may be required at times.
We must ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The mission statement about disorders affecting >1B people, urgency, hypercollaborative, impact over short-term markers, creativity/failure stepping stones, strong opinions weakly held, solve real engineering problems inventing fast or using existing solutions, collaboration essential, explore unknown, make mistakes, own them, learn, improve, excel, recruiting team exemplifying values, ideal candidate scientist-engineer crossing disciplinary boundaries, intellectually curious, relentlessly practical, happiest solving never-solved-before problems, strong detail orientation, exceptional organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication skills, good at writing, can work within team and independently, prioritize and multitask, self-motivation, commitment to high quality standards, service-oriented mindset, good judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, open to feedback constructively to advance missions and personal growth. Some of these are covered in Skills (organizational, planning, interpersonal, communication, writing, teamwork/independent, prioritize/multitask, self-motivation, commitment to quality, service-oriented mindset, judgment balancing flexibility/focus, action/planning, speed/thoughtfulness, openness to feedback). Also we missed mention of "intellectually curious, relentlessly practical, happiest when solving problems that have never been solved before." Could add to Skills or About the role. Also "strong detail orientation". Could add to Skills. Also mention "We operate with a sense of urgency, even as we look to understand the brain at its most fundamental levels." Could be in About the role. Also "We are hypercollaborative, and focused on impact over short-term markers of productivity." Could be in About the role. Also "Creativity and failure are the stepping stones to scale, and working together with “strong opinions, weakly held” is our style." Could be in About the role. Also "We solve real engineering problems the best way we can: inventing fast when we have to, and using good existing solutions where they exist." Could be in About the role. Also "We believe hard problems only yield to many disciplines working together, so collaboration is not optional." Could be in About the role. Also "We expect people to explore the unknown, which means making mistakes daily, owning them, and learning from them to improve and excel." Could be in About the role. Also "We are recruiting
- .
Requirements: list:
- B.S. or B.A. in bioengineering, neuroscience, biophysics, chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, or a related field.
- Direct hands-on experience with neural tissue handling, cell culture, histology, and fluorescent microscopy.
- Demonstrated ability to build, modify, troubleshoot, and improve complex experimental systems.
- Excellent experimental judgment and scientific rigor.
Qualifications: list:
- Hands-on experience with neuronal activity recordings (electrophysiology, calcium imaging, voltage imaging, optogenetics).
- Experience with human iPSC differentiation and mouse brain slice recording.
- Familiarity with viral and nonviral gene expression systems.
Skills: list:
- Strong data analysis skills (Python, C++, MATLAB, ImageJ, or similar).
- Direct experience with image analysis.
- Exceptional organizational, planning, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Good at writing; able to work within a team and independently; able to prioritize and multitask as needed.
- Self-motivation, commitment to high quality standards, and service-oriented mindset.
- Good judgment balancing flexibility and focus, action and planning, speed and thoughtfulness.
- Open to giving and receiving feedback constructively to advance scientific missions and personal growth.
Benefits: list:
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and family benefits.
- Matching retirement contribution.
Pay: