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Head of Clinical Science

Convergent Research· Arbor Neuroscience
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San Francisco, CA$210k - $320kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead the clinical scientific direction and human neuroscience program for Arbor Neuroscience, influencing which conditions and symptoms to pursue, study design, partnerships, and how to translate science into patient impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Arbor's thinking on clinical scientific direction: which diseases and symptom dimensions we pursue, and why
  • Lead the scientific design of the human program — targets, tasks, stimulation strategy, outcome measures
  • Run human studies, hands-on, alongside our scientific and clinical staff
  • Interpret results, with our analysis lead and computational collaborators
  • Build and evaluate external partnerships with clinical teams, and set priorities among them
  • Advise the animal and modeling programs on clinical relevance
  • Assess groups who want to use our platforms, and help decide where those collaborations go
  • Write white papers, journal articles, and the materials that support fundraising
  • Hire and build the human science team as the program grows
  • In your first six months, develop a plan for the human research program, ensure infrastructure, begin ramping up recruitment, establish external relationships, and aim to analyze longitudinal interventional human circuit data by year end

Qualifications

  • An accomplished clinician-scientist or clinically oriented neuroscientist with a substantial independent research record
  • Understanding of psychiatric or neurological dysfunction from a circuits perspective with clinical grounding to know patient populations
  • MD not required if PhD with deep clinical research experience
  • Translational neuroscience viewpoints and a strong network of clinician and researcher colleagues
  • Cross-disciplinary breadth across neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, imaging, clinical assessment, and clinical practice
  • Experience running human studies end to end
  • Directness and collaborative spirit

Skills

Required:Clinical research leadershipHuman studies design and executionExternal partnerships and collaborations

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision – most plans fully covered for you and your dependents
  • 401(k) with up to 6% match
  • Company-paid life and AD&D, with voluntary supplemental options
  • 15 holidays plus a floating day for your birthday
  • 3 weeks PTO increasing with tenure, and separate sick leave
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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