MindMaze is the world’s leading Neurotechnology start-up 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 artificial intelligence 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, and grow with MindMaze.

The MindMaze Neuroscience team is looking for a full-time neuroscientist (MD/PhD) specialized on decision making. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will be the scientific lead on a research project on this topic. You will design and supervise scientific studies from conception to analysis and dissemination. You will communicate these results internally, and/or externally in conferences, events, and via academic publications. The role entails supervision and management of scientific activities within the neuroscience team at MindMaze. Furthermore, the role entails coordination with engineers to design and implement stimuli and data acquisition.

Your mission

• To plan and conduct a neuro-technological research project around the neuroscience of decision making

Your responsibility

• Review and monitor available literature on the neuroscience of decision making
• Design gamified protocols on game theory and decision-making and supervise their technical implementation
• Design experimental paradigms, and appropriate statistics, to evaluate the (electro-) physiological markers of decision making
• Supervise experimental studies and their analysis

To support you, MindMaze will:

• Provide an international collaborative work environment
• Provide mentoring
• Allow flexible employment terms and conditions

Skills that we look out for are among

• PhD or MD PhD in neuroscience with an emphasis on decision making
• 2+ years of postdoctoral experience with strong evidence of research output quality
• Track record of expertise in psychophysics, electroencephalography (EEG), physiology or neuroimaging
• Strong understanding of the scientific method and advanced statistical design
• Comfortable with using high-level programming languages (e.g., Python/Matlab) and software for statistical data analysis (e.g., R, SPSS, Statistica) and visualization.
• English proficiency (spoken, written)

Icing on the cake

• Experience in the analysis of behavioral measures such as eye movements and facial expressions.
• Experience of working in a medical device company.

To be successful, you can illustrate the fact that you have the following abilities:

• Excellent communication skills in English and possible in French
• Team player: works well with others and strive for a common goal
• Planning and organizing: effectively use resources to get things done. Can orchestrate multiple activities to accomplish a goal. Spends time on what is important
• Strong interpersonal skills: relates well to all kinds of people, builds constructive and effective relationships