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We're building a wearable brain-computer interface and models that decode emotion, with the goal of putting human experience and wellbeing at the center of technology. Our work spans neural sensors, embedded systems, scientific software, and AI.\nWe're venture funded, with backing from founders and executives across AI, neurotechnology, consumer hardware, and pharmaceuticals, including Google, Hugging Face, Apple, Stability, Microsoft, and Dropbox.\nAbout the role\nBuild the data foundation that connects neural recordings to scientific discovery. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape our backend architecture, data model, database design, and the services that make recordings accessible and useful.\nYou'll have real influence over technology choices and how the platform grows. Leading candidates include Supabase and PostgreSQL, with S3-compatible object storage and Zarr v3 for scientific arrays. We favor focused services and managed infrastructure that give a small team room to build ambitious capabilities.\nYou will\nShape the backend architecture and select technologies around the needs of our product, researchers, and engineering team.\n\nDesign the data model and relational database schema, including recording identity, configuration, provenance, relationships, indexing, and schema migrations.\n\nBuild APIs and services for ingesting, storing, discovering, and retrieving recordings and their metadata.\n\nDesign authentication, authorization, and credential flows that make access secure and straightforward.\n\nCollaborate with desktop engineers on robust upload and synchronization workflows that preserve recording integrity.\n\nDevelop scientific data storage around useful access patterns, balancing performance, scalability, and cost.\n\nEstablish automated testing, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and observability that keep the platform reliable and easy to evolve.\n\nYou are\nAn engineer with a degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field, and at least five years of relevant professional experience.\n\nExperienced designing and operating backend services, with depth in a modern production language.\n\nComfortable with data modeling, relational database design, SQL, APIs, and cloud object storage.\n\nFamiliar with authentication, authorization, and credential management across application boundaries.\n\nAble to design robust data flows and reason about consistency between services, stored data, and metadata.\n\nInterested in shaping a greenfield system, making tradeoffs explicit, and choosing designs a small team can build and evolve.\n\nSomeone who enjoys collaborating with the people producing and consuming the data.\n\nYou might also\nHave experience with Supabase or PostgreSQL row-level security (RLS), or bring related database and managed-backend experience with MySQL, Firebase, or Appwrite.\n\nHave built REST or GraphQL APIs, serverless functions, event-driven services, or data ingestion pipelines on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.\n\nHave worked with Zarr, HDF5, Apache Arrow, Parquet, or scientific datasets, and understand how storage formats support different access patterns.\n\nKnow object storage such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage, resumable uploads, or identity and access patterns using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or JWTs.\n\nHave supported native desktop or connected-device clients, or built asynchronous data flows using MQTT, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable messaging technologies.\n\nHave used infrastructure as code with Terraform or Pulumi, container tools such as Docker, or observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.\n\nBring experience with data provenance, reproducible processing, or datasets used in model development.\n\nWe're looking for a strong foundation and the ability to grow. 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