Neuroadaptive Interface Engineer
Lead engineering for interfaces that read operator state and adapt a system's behaviour in response. The hard problems here are signal quality outside the laboratory, and knowing precisely how much authority an inferred mental state should be given.
- Location
- Cambridge, MA
- Level
- Principal
- Clearance
- Secret
- Reference
- ON-BT-4402
- Division
- Biotechnology
- Site
- Biomedical campus
- Region
- Americas
- Engagement
- Full-time · On site
- Travel
- Occasional — clinical and operational partners
- Reports to
- Director, Neuroadaptive Systems
What the role is responsible for.
- Own the technical direction for neuroadaptive sensing and the closed loop it feeds.
- Establish the validation standard for state inference, including its false-positive posture.
- Lead a mixed team of hardware, signal processing, and human-factors engineers.
- Define, with Ethics & Governance, the limits on what an inferred state is allowed to actuate.
- Bring designs through to a form robust enough for operational rather than laboratory use.
What we need you to bring.
- Twelve or more years in biosignal engineering, neurotechnology, or human-machine interface development.
- Track record taking a sensing system from laboratory to field conditions.
- Depth in signal processing and applied machine learning for physiological data.
- Experience leading engineers across hardware and software boundaries.
- Eligibility for sponsored Secret vetting.
Useful, not essential.
- Regulated medical device development experience.
- Background in aviation or operational human factors.
- Publication record in neuroergonomics or adaptive automation.
We read the preferred list as a description of a useful background, not a checklist. Candidates who meet the required list and none of the preferred are regularly hired.
Who you would be joining.
Neuroadaptive Systems is a cross-disciplinary group on the Cambridge campus, working with Autonomous Systems on the governance side and with Aerospace on the operational side.
What to know before you apply.
This programme is reviewed by the Ethics & Governance office on a standing basis. Candidates should expect that review to be a real constraint on the work.
All candidates undergo comprehensive vetting. Reasonable accommodation is available at any stage — say so in your first note and it will be arranged. We do not use unverified third-party recruiters, and we never ask a candidate for a fee.