AI Research Scientist

Kernel is hiring an AI Research Scientist to build a foundation model using its brain activity data. The role focuses on developing and validating models that support brain age prediction, cognitive scoring, treatment outcome prediction, and classification of healthy controls versus mild cognitive impairment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement specialized foundation model architectures for TD-fNIRS
• Train and validate models using Kernel’s datasets, potentially supplemented with other datasets
• Evaluate the usefulness of the model by leveraging it to help solve a subset of the problems that Kernel is working on: brain age prediction; cognitive scoring across the lifespan; prediction of treatment outcome for depression patients; classification of healthy controls vs mild cognitive impairment in an older population
• Depending on the outcomes, there may be an opportunity to publish research findings in peer-reviewed journals and conferences