Research scientist
- Full-time
Company Description
MindMaze is the world’s leading Neurotechnology startup built on more than a decade of pioneering research at the intersection of virtual reality and neuroscience. Our breakthrough platform combines virtual & augmented reality, neuroscience and AI to build intuitive human machine interfaces. Our first products help patients suffering from severe disabilities following a neurological incident. Join our eclectic mix of scientists, physicists, engineers and clinicians to help change the world!
Job Description
As a senior research scientist, you will be part of the core R&D team and will work closely with hardware, firmware and software teams. You will be contributing towards implementation of System-on-Chip solution for existing and future hardware needs at MindMaze.
You will:
- Coordinate with the hardware team: Take part in the Architecture design, evaluate system level specifications and optimize the design prior to industrialization;
- Drive the Chip design: Study and evaluate different commercial System-in-Package and System-on-Chip solutions prior to mapping hardware onto an integrated chip;
- Chip design and test documentation: Write requirements, test plans, test record documents, control traceability and participate in risk analysis;
- Coordinate with the firmware team: For efficient software-hardware co-design, work with the firmware team to optimize the embedded code on the hardware prototypes;
- Form strategic partnerships: Connect with various IC design and Manufacturing companies in Europe/US and form strategic partnerships;
- Research proposals: Write research grants by collaborating with academic and industrial partners;
- Participate in product development;
To be successful you can illustrate the fact that you have the following abilities:
- Strong leadership and ability to drive influence across stakeholders to set direction, align work efforts and ensure flawless execution.
- Proven teamwork and collaboration skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to build constructive work relationships and to nurture a trust and confidentiality;
- Oral and written communication: ability to communicate clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles; ability to get messages across that have the desired effect; ability to adapt communication to a variety of audiences;
- Planning accurately: setting objectives and goals; breaking down work into the process steps; developing schedules and task/people assignments; anticipating and adjusting to problems and roadblocks;
- Problem Solving Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
Qualifications
- PhD in Electrical/Computer engineering related to Chip design;
- 5-10 years of experience in Research and Development;
- Experience in Mixed signal IC design;
- Knowledge in hardware implementation of Machine learning algorithms at the node;
- Experience in writing research publications and grants;
- Knowledge in hardware-software co-design;
- Experience in industrial product development;
- Fluent written and spoken English.
Icing on the cake:
- Experience in a start-up environment;
- Experience in Lean product and process development;
- Experience in writing patents.
Additional Information
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