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!

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.

• 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.

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