Human Neuroscientist, Intracranial Recording

The role

You will lead a human neuroscience program to collect, process, and analyze intracranial data at scale. This involves designing cognitive paradigms, translating primate paradigms to humans, and coordinating with clinical partners worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and deploy intracranial cognitive paradigms.
• Translate primate paradigms into compatible human studies.
• Process and analyze single-neuron, multi-unit, and local field potential recordings.
• Implement advanced computational cognitive-neuroscience methods.
• Coordinate and manage clinical partners across the world.
• Manage IRB and regulatory documentation, data-sharing agreements, and cross-site protocol harmonization.

Required qualifications

• PhD, or MD/PhD with 8-12+ years of experience
• Hands-on experience with human intracranial electrophysiology (single neuron, sEEG, ECoG, Utah array, or comparable)
• Track record of successfully conducting high-quality science with human intracranial electrophysiology, ideally at the single-neuron level
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement cognitive paradigms in clinical research populations
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Fluency in Python and/or MATLAB
• Strong understanding of advanced concepts used for population-level analysis of representations of cognitive variables, in real neurons or neural networks

Nice to have

• Strong AI and neuroscience background
• Background in cognitive neuroscience of language, syntax, semantic processing, working memory, or mathematical cognition
• Existing collaborations with neurosurgical sites
• Experience translating paradigms across species (rodent / primate / human)
• Working proficiency in Mandarin or a major European language

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Total compensation that is competitive and commensurate with the level of experience and qualifications

About the company

Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward a better future. Astera Neuro seeks to understand and engineer consciousness by combining large-scale neural recording, causal perturbation, and brain-based AI.