Staff Clinical Scientist

Key Responsibilities

• Lead clinical science execution for exploratory, non-significant risk, and early human clinical research studies.
• Contribute to study protocols, endpoints, assessments, data collection plans, case report forms, source documentation, and investigator-facing materials.
• Partner with Clinical Operations on study startup, site readiness, IRB workflows, documentation, monitoring plans, and study execution.
• Serve as a clinical/scientific representative with investigators, clinicians, coordinators, hospital research teams, and external collaborators.
• Support site training, study procedure execution, issue tracking, protocol deviation follow-up, and study closeout activities.
• Support data review, study readouts, internal reports, abstracts, manuscripts, and other scientific outputs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with clinical, scientific, engineering, software, regulatory, quality, and product teams.

Required Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent advanced training in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, clinical research, rehabilitation science, medicine, or a related field.
• 3+ years of industry experience supporting sponsor-initiated human clinical research studies.
• Experience in a clinical scientist, clinical research scientist, clinical engineer, clinical study lead, or similar industry role.
• Experience with medical device, neurotechnology, neuromodulation, electrophysiology, rehabilitation technology, or other complex clinical research studies.
• Familiarity with clinical study protocols, endpoints, assessments, case report forms, source documentation, and study data review.
• Working knowledge of clinical operations processes, including IRB workflows, study documentation, site startup, monitoring, GCP, and source documentation.
• Ability to communicate effectively with physicians, investigators, coordinators, hospital staff, and cross-functional internal teams.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple study-related workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to travel to clinical sites as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior academic or postdoctoral experience in clinical, translational, or human-subjects research.
• Experience with early feasibility, first-in-human, non-significant risk, IDE, or early-stage medical device studies.
• Experience with implantable medical devices, BCI, EEG/ECoG, neurophysiology, or intraoperative research.
• Experience working with academic medical centers, hospitals, or clinical research units.
• Familiarity with ISO 14155, FDA IDE processes, NSR studies, and Good Clinical Practice guidelines.
• Experience contributing to clinical study reports, abstracts, publications, regulatory materials, or investigator-facing scientific communications.
• Experience working in a startup, small-company, or highly cross-functional R&D environment.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with equity
• 100% of healthcare coverage for you and your dependents
• Generous vacation policy
• Paid parental leave
• Work from our beautiful waterfront office in Alameda, CA, with access to collaborative spaces and labs.

Compensation Range

$155K - $190K