Applied AI Scientist, Language Modeling

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. Job Summary We are seeking an experienced Applied Scientist, with a focus on Language 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 language models for use within brain-computer interface applications to have real-world impact on patients with physical disabilities. Key Responsibilities Leveraging a deep understanding of LMs to create custom solutions for brain-computer interface applications, including LLM fine-tuning, customization, and dissection Exploring a variety of LM tokenizations and embeddings for better integration into other decoding pipelines Working collaboratively within a small team to iterate on models and integrate LMs into product applications Developing lightweight LMs, sequence-decoding algorithms, and other approaches for portable model deployment Characterizing agentic AI tools for suitability within product applications Maintaining 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 Required 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 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 Preferred Qualifications Experience working with reinforcement learning, LLM alignment and safety, and multilingual modeling Experience working on medical or clinical applications Experience developing foundation models and applying transfer-learning techniques Experience translating methods described in scientific publications to available datasets What We Offer An opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge projects to transform patients’ lives in a highly collaborative work environment. Competitive compensation, including stock options. Comprehensive benefits package. 401(k) program with matching contributions. Equal Opportunity Employer Echo Neurotechnologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Confidentiality All applications will be treated confidentially. Applicants may be asked to sign an NDA after the initial stages of the interview process.