About Nudge

At Nudge, our mission is to develop the best technology for interfacing with the brain to improve people's lives. We're starting with an approach that we believe can help the most people the fastest, and also allow us to learn as much about the brain as possible: developing a non-invasive, ultrasound-based device that can stimulate and image the brain at high resolution and depth. This is a vertically integrated effort building cutting-edge hardware, software, and research capabilities to create products that can benefit millions — and eventually billions — of people.

We’ve brought together a team of the best, who believe hard things are worth doing. To succeed, we need to assemble world-class teams across everything we do. We hire people who are exceptional at their craft, do the real work, and execute relentlessly — people who expect the highest levels of both rigor and integrity from each other.

About the team

The Research Team at Nudge is innovating on multiple frontiers in neuroscience and neurotechnology, and is primarily focused on developing ultrasound-based neuromodulation to treat conditions like depression, chronic pain and addiction as well as enhance the wellbeing of healthy people. We’re also building the first scalable, portable hardware for noninvasive structural ultrasound-based imaging the quality of an MRI. The team is running human trials for neuromodulation and developing algorithms that will enable on-device imaging.

About the role

• Develop methods for characterizing the mechanism of action of ultrasound on neural tissue

• Design and execute experiments in vitro to determine the impact of ultrasound on cellular properties and activity

• Explore optimization of the ultrasound parameter space for driving cellular activity and plasticity

• Translate in-vitro findings to human studies of neuromodulation

About you

• 5+ years experience

• PhD or Postdoc in neuroscience, molecular/cellular biology, biomedical engineering or another science or engineering discipline

• Demonstrated history of exceptional contributions in your prior work experiences

• Experience in one or more of:

  • Neural cell culture methods

  • Human neural iPSC methods

  • Calcium imaging, functional imaging analysis