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Head of Clinical Science

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead clinical scientific direction and design for a nonprofit's human neuroscience program using functional ultrasound and neuromodulation to treat depression, chronic pain, and brain disorders.

Role type

Senior IC Head of Clinical Science

Builds

Human research program, clinical partnerships, and translational models for neuromodulation

Domain

Clinical neuroscience, neuromodulation, psychiatric/neurological disorders

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

clinical neuroscience, circuit-based understanding of psychiatric/neurological dysfunction, human study design, external partnership building, team leadership, scientific writing

Preferred skills

focused ultrasound, functional ultrasound, DBS, TMS, transdiagnostic approaches, multimodal imaging, IRB/regulatory experience

Technologies

functional ultrasound, focused ultrasound, DBS, TMS

Responsibilities

Define clinical scientific direction and disease targets; design human studies (targets, tasks, stimulation, outcomes); run human studies hands-on; interpret results; build/evaluate clinical partnerships; advise animal/modeling programs; assess platform collaborators; write white papers/articles; hire human science team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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