Founding Scientist

About the role

About this Role

Parasma is looking for a founding scientist to own the following:

- Scientific roadmap for training biological substrates

- Design, execute, and analyze closed-loop training experiments

- Develop learning protocols for biological neural systems

- Define reward structures, stimulation policies, feedback loops, and evaluation metrics

- Build theoretical frameworks and benchmarks around learning, control, and information transfer in biological substrates

- Identify and solve core bottlenecks in biological training, including noise, variability, non-stationarity, and limited observability

- Work with engineering to build the software, hardware, and ML infrastructure required for real-time training

Preferred Experience

- Well published in information theory or related fields

- Deep understanding of learning systems, optimization, exploration, credit assignment, and adaptive control

- Experience designing experiments for complex biological, neural, or adaptive systems

- Understanding of the challenges involved in training biological substrates

- Currently or previously a professor, PI, or senior research scientist at a top institution

- Proven ability to lead an independent research agenda

See the posting on Parasma's site