Data Engineer

Company Overview

Echo Neurotechnologies is an exciting new startup in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) space, driving innovation through advanced hardware engineering and AI solutions. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge technologies that restore autonomy to people living with disabilities and improve their quality of life.

Team Culture

Join a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable and motivated professionals. Our early-stage environment offers the opportunity to take ownership of broad decisions with significant and long-lasting impact. We emphasize continuous learning and growth, fostering cross-functional collaboration where your contributions are vital to our success.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our team. The person who fills this role will design and develop scalable and efficient cloud-based data systems to process large volumes of brain data, supporting model development, deep research, and scientific discovery, resulting in real-world impact on patients with physical disabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build databases for massive-scale storage of heterogeneous and high-dimensional data and metadata

• Design and develop systems for high-throughput data ingestion, pipelining, curation, and quality assessments

• Characterize data throughput, efficiency, compressibility, and performance

• Provide observability, monitoring, and logging for data pathways

• Work collaboratively within a small team to integrate data platforms with research and product use cases

• Ensure compliance with medical software standards and regulations.

• Follow coding best practices to create and maintain reproducible, clear, and highly documented code.

Role Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Math, Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or other relevant quantitative field

• A minimum of 4 years of industry experience building solutions to manage large/massive datasets at scale

• Experience working with distributed-data tools (e.g. Spark/Databricks, Delta Lake) and data formats (e.g. Apache Parquet, hdf5, relational data)

• Proficiency in Python and SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with medical sensor data, time series data, and/or brain data.

• Practical knowledge of cybersecurity best practices.

• Expertise in production-quality Python for backend systems.

• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and related technologies

• Experience working with Azure platforms

• Experience working on medical or clinical applications

• Experience developing data solutions for foundation modeling

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge projects to transform patients’ lives in a highly collaborative work environment.

• Competitive compensation, including stock options.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• 401(k) program with matching contributions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Echo Neurotechnologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Confidentiality

All applications will be treated confidentially. Applicants may be asked to sign an NDA after the initial stages of the interview process.