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Posted Jul 29, 2025Applied AI Scientist, Language & Context
at Echothat
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Requirements
- 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.
- JOB SUMMARY We are seeking an experienced Applied AI Scientist, with a focus on language & context 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 flexible language and context models for use within brain-computer interface applications to have real-world impact on patients with physical disabilities. KEY
- RESPONSIBILITIES - Language modeling - Leverage a deep understanding of LMs to create custom solutions for brain-computer interface applications, including LLM fine-tuning, customization, and dissection - Explore a variety of LM strategies of various scales and complexities for tailored integration into other decoding pipelines - Characterize agentic AI tools for suitability in product user interfaces - Context modeling - Design and build ML pipelines capable of performing flexible, real-time inference
- 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 deploying ML models in an industry setting -
- 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 developing foundation models and applying transfer-learning techniques -
- Experience working with high-dimensional time-series datasets -
- Experience working on medical or clinical applications -
Benefits
- Experience working with speech-recognition, video-processing, and application-parsing models 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.
Additional details
- 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.
- pretrained foundation models) for broad and generalized use in other models - Model miniaturization for low-latency and computationally inexpensive processing - Work collaboratively and effectively within a small, cross-functional team to hit both R&D and product-focused goals - Maintain 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
- Experience translating methods described in scientific publications to available datasets -
- 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.