Clinical Research Scientist

Clinical       ·      San Francisco, CA On-site       ·       Full time

About the job

Cala Health Inc., an award-winning bioelectronic medicine company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, is transforming the standard of care for chronic disease. The company’s wearable neuromodulation therapies utilize electricity as medicine, merging innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation, while its vertically integrated commercial model is transforming the delivery of prescription therapies. Cala Health’s lead product, Cala Trio™, is the only non-invasive, wrist-worn prescription therapy currently available for essential tremor. Cala Health has new therapies under development in neurology, cardiology, and mental health, and is backed by leading investors in both healthcare and technology

The Opportunity

Cala Health is seeking a Clinical Research Scientist to join our growing team. The role will be responsible for designing and monitoring research studies, analyzing and reporting complex high-dimensional data, and developing reports, visualizations and publications to support the company’s clinical and commercial objectives.

Specific Responsibilities Also Includes

• Design preclinical and clinical research studies using insights from literature reviews, data analytics, neuroscience knowledge, and stakeholder input.
• Write clinical study protocols and statistical analysis plans.
• Provide oversight on external study collaborations, including drafting project documentation, tracking study timelines, and maintaining communication with research sites.
• Combinate state-of-the-art neuroscience knowledge with advanced data analytics techniques to perform exploratory analysis of clinical and commercial data and derive actionable insights.
• Utilize advanced statistical, mathematical, and predictive modeling to build algorithms.
• Develop reports, abstracts, and manuscripts for publication of research study outcomes.
• Assist in the development and preparation of external data presentation.
• Develop, demonstrate, and communicate Cala’s understanding of neural mechanisms to the field.
• Support management of data derived from clinical and real-world use of Cala’s therapies.
• Develop and manage interactive data visualization and analytic tools for reporting.
• Identify new technologies/concepts/methodologies which will help address complex, non-routine and evolving needs of various departments.
• Identify issues throughout data collection to analysis, develop relevant testing protocols, and support implementing solutions by engineers.
• This role may support building, running, and analyzing finite element analysis and computational neuroscience modeling simulations.
• Manage incoming scientists as the team grows for research/data analysis projects.

Desired Skills And Experience

We are looking for a Clinical Research Scientist to support the Research team in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment, exemplified by:

• 5+ years experience in basic scientific or clinical research in neuroscience, neuromodulation, or related areas.
• Experience leading preclinical or clinical study design and writing study protocols.
• Strong background in physiologic data analysis, preferably experience in analyzing clinical and electrophysiology recorded data in human or animal models.
• Full-stack experience in data collection, aggregation, analysis, visualization, and monitoring of data science products.
• Robust skills in statistics, probability, and/or machine learning.
• 3+ years experience with scripting languages for pre-processing and statistical analysis (e.g. Python, R, MatLab).
• Strong publication record in peer-reviewed journals.
• Graduate degree in a quantitative scientific field (statistics, mathematics, computer science, computational biology, or engineering).
• Experience in finite element modeling (e.g., Comsol, Ansys, Sim4Life) and/or computational neuroscience modeling (e.g., Neuron simulation environment) is a plus.
• Excellent team player and communicator with demonstrated track record of success in a cross-functional team environment. Consistent commitment to delivering on team goals with a sense of shared urgency.
• Passion for patient-centered innovation to improve both health and healthcare

Cala Health believes our success is based on diversity of people, teams and thinking. We offer all employees the tools, training and mentoring they need to succeed. Our selection process is driven by the key requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s sex, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, non-jobrelated disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race or any other legally protected classification.

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