Research Scientist

Hi, I'm Brian, Co-Founder of Egra. We just raised $5.5M to build foundation models for brain signals, and we're looking for research scientists to join our founding team.

You'll have complete ownership over your work from day one. No lengthy onboarding, no waiting for permission, no navigating layers of approval. A small founding team, deep technical problems, and the resources to solve them. You'll define the research direction, make architectural decisions, and build the foundations of what becomes our core technology. If you thrive with high agency and want your work to directly shape the company's trajectory, this is that opportunity.

EEG — electrical brain activity recorded from the scalp — is one of the hardest real-world signal modalities in ML: low signal-to-noise ratio, massive subject variability, and device inconsistencies. Most people avoid it for these reasons.

As a founding research scientist, you'd be working directly with us to figure out what actually works. To ground it with examples, the kind of projects you'd own:

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• Deep experience with self-supervised learning, ideally on EEG or neural signals specifically

• Strong opinions about what makes representations actually generalize

• The ability to run your own experiments end-to-end (design, implement, train, evaluate, write up)

• Comfort with ugly, heterogeneous data and strategies for making it useful

• Familiarity with the EEG landscape, you know the public datasets, the benchmarks, and where current approaches fall short

• You need a clear roadmap or structured team to do your best work

• You're more interested in neuroscience theory than building systems that work

• You rely heavily on hand-crafted features or domain-specific engineering

Our process is three conversations:

1. 30-minute intro call. We'll tell you what we're working on, you'll tell us what you've worked on. Casual, honest, no prep needed.

2. 30-minute technical conversation. We'll talk through a real research design problem together. No whiteboard tricks — we want to see how you think about signal problems, failure modes, and tradeoffs. Think of it as a research jam session.

3. 30-minute deep dive. You'll meet both founders. We'll go deeper on your past work, talk about research taste, and figure out if we'd enjoy working together every day.