BCI Chief Scientist: Lead Research & Strategy

WABO; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Social insurance and housing fund

Weekends off and holidays

Annual health checks and holidays

Meal and transport allowances

Technical exchanges and cross‑disciplo

Equity or option incentives

Job summary

WABO is seeking a PhD-level researcher to lead BCI research initiatives. You will set strategic directions, oversee experiments on signal quality and online stability, and coordinate external collaborations with engineering validation.

The role emphasizes rigorous documentation, versioned work, and reproducible results across disciplines. The ideal candidate has a strong track record in neural decoding or neural engineering, and can build and lead research teams while communicating findings

Qualifications

• PhD in biomedical engineering, neuroscience or computer science.
• Independent research and team leadership experience.
• A record in neural decoding, neural engineering or physiological signals.
• Experience building and developing research teams.
• Understanding of acquisition, experiments, algorithms and deployment.
• Read English research literature independently, design studies and explain technical contributions through experiments or prototypes.
• Explain your individual contribution clearly and work carefully across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Set the BCI research direction and milestones.
• Lead work on signal quality, individual differences and online stability.
• Connect research prototypes, external collaboration and engineering validation.
• Review research plans and resources, and advance reproducible experiments, technical reports and prototypes.
• Document the research or engineering process, maintain versions and evidence, and make results reviewable.
• Review, integrate and improve work with relevant teams to advance project milestones.

Skills

Independent research

Team leadership

Neural decoding

Neural engineering

Physiological signals

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

English literature reading

Education

PhD in Biomedical Engineering/Neuroscience/CS

Tools

Data acquisition

Algorithms deployment

Prototyping

Job description

WABO is seeking a PhD-level researcher to lead BCI research initiatives. You will set strategic directions, oversee experiments on signal quality and online stability, and coordinate external collaborations with engineering validation.

The role emphasizes rigorous documentation, versioned work, and reproducible results across disciplines. The ideal candidate has a strong track record in neural decoding or neural engineering, and can build and lead research teams while communicating findings