About the role
What you'll do
1. Run human-subjects recording sessions end-to-end: participant prep and fitting, sensor configuration and calibration, stimulus delivery, real-time signal monitoring, and session documentation.
2. Own daily system QC for a one-of-a-kind sensing instrument: baseline noise recordings, per-sensor health checks, log review, and escalation of anomalies before they touch a dataset.
3. Own participant operations: recruitment coordination, scheduling, screening, consent, and compliant handling of participant records.
4. Stand up and maintain the operational backbone of the program: SOPs for acquisition, QC, and participant workflows — documentation that survives you.
5. Handle first-pass data operations: file conversion, organization, metadata, and quality review in Python.
6. Partner daily with the program lead to refine acquisition protocols and improve system performance over time.
What we're looking for
* Hands-on experience acquiring physiological or imaging data from human participants in a clinical or research setting
* Obsessive consistency and attention to detail: you notice when something is off and you don't let it slide.
* Professional, patient, and calm with research participants — sessions succeed or fail on how people feel in the room.
* Basic scripting ability (Python and/or shell) for QC and data-handling tasks, or clear aptitude and motivation to build it.
* High ownership of the unglamorous parts: scheduling, documentation, tidy data hygiene.
* Discretion — parts of this program are not yet public. We'll walk you through the specifics, including the exact technology you'd be operating, in the first conversation.
Useful experience
* Controlled or low-noise recording environments and highly sensitive instrumentation.
* Physiological signal-processing tools in Python.
* Human-subjects research administration (IRB protocols, consent workflows).
* Research studies involving structured tasks or sensory protocols with human participants.