Senior Manager of Engineering, Beacon Biosignals
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AI brain monitoring
Open for applications
AI brain monitoring
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve human health by enabling rapid, targeted interventions through advanced brain analytics.
Role
Who you are
- You've directly managed mid-sized software engineering teams that have tackled big problems, and can speak to the underlying processes that drove failures and successes encountered by the team along the way
- You love seeing teams level up. You're dedicated to helping direct reports overcome challenges and seize opportunities that are crucial to self-growth
- Information-gathering is ingrained in every aspect of your work. Your decisions incorporate feedback from stakeholders, your reports, collaborators, and historical context that you intentionally mine from the project over time
- You demonstrate a bias towards simplicity, avoid misallocating complexity, and try to impose structure at the right time - not too early or too late
- You're painfully aware of the perils of both under- and over-planning. You have a solid handle on the planning horizon of any given project, as well as the corresponding inevitable estimation accuracy dropoff over time. You work to extend that horizon as the project matures
- Once you've made a decision, you communicate and follow through with it. You swiftly communicate any dynamic changes with collaborators and stakeholders
- Your work empowers the decision-making abilities of your reports, collaborators, and stakeholders
- You have a keen sense for the bandwidth limitations, technical debt, and non-iterative processes that drag a project down, and you've employed effective strategies for preventing/remedying these issues in the past
- You've worked in a regulated industry before, and have successfully navigated the tension between fast-paced agile development and strict design controls
What the job involves
- Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Senior Manager, Engineering to manage our Datastore team
- The Beacon Datastore is the heart of Beacon's platform, encompassing our foundational data model and serving as the centralized data repository and API for Beacon's brain data collection and analytical tools, services, and applications
- In this role, you'll manage 5-7 engineers and will be responsible for the continued development and success of your team and its products
- This role reports directly to Beacon's VP of Platform
- At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example
- As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients
- We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact
- Manage 5-7 engineers on Beacon's Datastore Team, coaching them to pursue opportunities to grow their impact at Beacon, and guiding them to overcome challenges along their journey
- Develop and share a deep understanding of the Datastore Team's activity and products to facilitate continuous improvement of the team's internal processes and integration with Beacon as a whole
- Cultivate an environment where engineers are empowered to learn constantly and collaboratively and treat setbacks as opportunities for continuous improvement
- Act as a steward of Beacon's engineering practices and maintain high bars for engineering quality, productivity, and accountability while motivating the team to continuously raise those bars over time
- Help your team scope out and prioritize tactical week-to-week work in direct connection with Beacon's wider strategic initiatives
- Ensure your team's development roadmap is outcome-oriented, up-to-date, aligned with the company's objectives and other teams' priorities, and communicated effectively to other stakeholders within Beacon
- Own project management responsibilities for team initiatives, including defining scope, managing timelines, and ensuring expectations are set both internally and externally
Our take
The brain has long been considered one of the most mysterious fields of medicine - and psychiatric and neurological diseases therefore one of the least understood. Better access to real-time brain data, however, could change this. That’s exactly what Beacon Biosignals is hoping to deliver.
Beacon Biosignals has developed a scaleable electroencephalogram (EEG) analytics platform that leverages AI to more accurately and insightfully manage brain data. Its capabilities run from analysing existing data, to identifying and standardizing neorobiomarkers, to continuously aggregating and analyzing trial data.
The hope is that this will help clinical brain researchers carry out faster and more accurate work, ultimately accelerating the pace of treatment development in neurology. It’s a smart new AI application, and Beacon Biosignals is acquiring new companies to scale and receiving handsome funding - but for that reason the company isn’t alone in pursuing it. Bitbrain is also developing neurology AI, although with a tighter focus on product development. This may help differentiate Beacon Biosignals in what is still a relatively new market area.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$27m
SERIES A
Jun 2019
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $30.5m
Company values
- The highest quality science is performed by teams. It's also more fun
- Successful product development requires rapid, early feedback from real patients and clinicians
- Feats of technical wizardry are only useful in combination with honest, frequent, and open communication
- A diverse team builds more robust systems and practices more impactful science
Company HQ
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Articles
Leadership
Jarrett Revels
(CTO)Previously a Software Engineer at MissionFocus, who then moved into various engineering and research roles at MIT.
Jacob Donoghue
(CEO)Completed a Neuroscience PhD at MIT, and received his MD from Harvard Medical School. Subsequently carried out research for Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Brandon Westover
(Co-founder)Received his MD from Washington University School of Medicine, then took up a Neurology residency at Harvard Medical School. Alongside his work at Beacon Biosignals, is also an HST Faculty member at MIT and a Neurologist/Medical AI Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Syd Cash
(Co-founder)An Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, who also leads the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery at MGH.
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