Staff Clinical Scientist
$155,000–$190,000 year
RemoteUnited States or Alameda, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead clinical science execution for exploratory and early human clinical research studies, translating objectives into high-quality protocols, data collection plans, and site workflows. Contribute to study materials including endpoints, assessments, case report forms, and source documentation while partnering with Clinical Operations on startup, IRB workflows, and monitoring. Serve as the clinical representative to investigators, hospital research teams, and external collaborators to support site training, procedure execution, and issue tracking. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, regulatory, and product teams to drive study outputs, readouts, manuscripts, and scientific communications. Requires up to 30% travel for domestic and international site visits.
Required Qualifications
- PhD or equivalent advanced training in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, clinical research, rehabilitation science, medicine, or a related field
- 3+ years of industry experience supporting sponsor-initiated human clinical research studies
- Experience in a clinical scientist, clinical research scientist, clinical engineer, clinical study lead, or similar industry role
- Experience with medical device, neurotechnology, neuromodulation, electrophysiology, rehabilitation technology, or other complex clinical research studies
- Familiarity with clinical study protocols, endpoints, assessments, case report forms, source documentation, and study data review
- Working knowledge of clinical operations processes, including IRB workflows, study documentation, site startup, monitoring, GCP, and source documentation
- Ability to communicate effectively with physicians, investigators, coordinators, hospital staff, and cross-functional internal teams
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple study-related workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to travel to clinical sites as needed
Desired Qualifications
- Prior academic or postdoctoral experience in clinical, translational, or human-subjects research
- Experience with early feasibility, first-in-human, non-significant risk, IDE, or early-stage medical device studies
- Experience with implantable medical devices, BCI, EEG/ECoG, neurophysiology, or intraoperative research
- Experience working with academic medical centers, hospitals, or clinical research units
- Familiarity with ISO 14155, FDA IDE processes, NSR studies, and Good Clinical Practice guidelines
- Experience contributing to clinical study reports, abstracts, publications, regulatory materials, or investigator-facing scientific communications
- Experience working in a startup, small-company, or highly cross-functional R&D environment
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