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Modulating activity in the brain circuits underlying their symptoms - with electrical stimulation, focused ultrasound, or magnetic stimulation - can work spectacularly well. But it doesn't work reliably, and we can't predict who it will help.\nThat's what Arbor aims to fix. The starting point is a new class of experiment: intervene, measure how the circuit responds, track the symptom, and repeat in the same individual over months. We’re building the necessary experimental platform. It currently includes the Forest 1 ultrasound system, which works like a wearable functional MRI, but with higher resolution. The system images activity across large brain volumes, including deep brain structures, and will soon stimulate as well. We are also adding electrode-based interfaces in animal studies. From these data, we'll build models to make neuromodulation predictable.\nArbor is a Focused Research Organization within the Convergent Research family, and the new name for Forest Neurotech. We're a mission-focused nonprofit, doing multidisciplinary translational work that doesn't fit in a lab or on a company roadmap. We have the funding to run the first phase, and we're a small team - the people we hire now will shape what Arbor becomes.\nThe Role\nThis is the person who makes sure we can actually run studies with human participants.\nArbor's human studies use functional ultrasound imaging, and soon focused ultrasound neuromodulation. Participants are people with a sonolucent cranial implant, usually placed after surgery for traumatic brain injury, stroke, or a tumor. The studies are longitudinal: the same participant returns over months, first in the lab or clinic and eventually at home. We work in partnership with hospitals and academic centers, here and in the UK.\nThe program needs to grow, and much of the infrastructure for that doesn't exist yet.\nPart of the job is conventional clinical operations: IRB submissions and amendments, protocol preparation, site readiness, participant scheduling and support, safety monitoring, documentation, and training systems. You'd own all of it. We're small, so for now that means doing the work as much as overseeing it.\nThe second part is harder to specify and a bigger challenge. Our program will depend on the quality and scale of our relationships with clinicians and hospital departments. Building and maintaining those partnerships requires a real understanding of where our interests align. This would be yours to own.\nYou'd also help grow our studies beyond the clinic. At-home longitudinal neuromodulation is where this program is headed, and we don’t yet know what that requires. Some of the answers are technical, and some will come from spending time with participants and seeing what their lives are like at home.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild the clinical program:\nPartner with scientific leadership on clinical strategy: which sites and partnerships and where our incentives align\n\nDevelop and own a recruitment program from a small and geographically scattered participant pool\n\nQualify and onboard clinical partners\n\nHelp design what at-home studies will require, from participant experience through logistics and safety\n\nRun the studies:\nLead start-up for internal and external studies\n\nOwn our IRB submissions and ongoing interactions\n\nManage participant scheduling, visits, follow-up, payments, and travel\n\nCoordinate device deployment, equipment readiness, and study-specific technical support; you don't need to run experiments, but you should be able to troubleshoot them\n\nEstablish and maintain TMF, document control, clinical SOPs, and the personnel training program\n\nOwn adverse event tracking and reporting\n\nWhere you start will depend on your strengths and on what the program needs most. This won't stay one person's job as Arbor grows.\nWho We’re Looking For\nThe successful candidate will have:\nSubstantial experience in human clinical research operations\n\nEnough scientific training to engage substantively with clinicians and researchers and to step in and help run a study when we need it. Advanced training, ideally a PhD in a relevant field, is the most common route, but not the only one\n\nThe written and spoken communication skills to explain the research to participants and collaborators and to produce final drafts of key documents\n\nThe organizational and interpersonal skills to keep everyone moving in the same direction, often with no established process to follow\n\nThe ambition to build clinical infrastructure, not just run it\n\nDirectness without friction - you say what you think, ask when you don't know, and aren't looking to compete with your colleagues\n\nNice to have: background in neuroscience, neuroimaging, neuromodulation; work with hospitals, academic medical centers, or external clinical research partners; early-stage medical device or biotech experience; familiarity with ICH-GCP, ISO 14155, and FDA medical device requirements; experience with QMS, CTMS, or eTMF systems; AE/SAE reporting, monitoring, CAPAs, and audit readiness.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5347,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Science & Engineering","Research Institutes"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T10:57:48Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":56,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.748,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":55,"expected_fill_days":63,"reasons":["conf:3","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":183000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/convergentresearch-clinical-operations-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/convergentresearch-clinical-operations-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T00:39:11Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":879,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6914},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6914"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fconvergentresearch-clinical-operations-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fconvergentresearch-clinical-operations-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fconvergentresearch-clinical-operations-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/convergentresearch-clinical-operations-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fconvergentresearch-clinical-operations-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":249461}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"convergentresearch.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":249461},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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