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Detect Alzheimer’s disease 20 years early through speech-based algorithms

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias will affect 1 in 3 people, causing progressive loss of memory – loss of what makes us who we are. No disease modifying treatment currently exists. We now know that the disease progresses silently for decades before symptoms become obvious and a diagnosis is made, which is a major reason why treatments don’t work. But very subtle changes do exist in the silent stages – in episodic memory, executive function, and language – and, with sophisticated enough technology, these changes can be detected in the way someone speaks.

About Novoic
Novoic is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing algorithms to detect neurological diseases such Alzheimer’s disease in their preclinical stages, by analysing audio-linguistic patterns of speech. Building on decades of research, the company is currently testing these algorithms in the clinic, to validate them as software-as-a-medical-device, and bring the first clinically viable speech-based algorithms to market. The company is venture capital funded, working with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation and Gates Ventures to develop a global standard for speech biomarkers, and is the only speech company to have been backed by the UK NHS’ AI organisation to test out its algorithms in 5 common neurological indications.Founded by Oxford and Cambridge researchers, our team is a reflection of the pioneering nature of our work. Physicians, clinicians, and neuroscientists work side-by-side with machine learning researchers and software engineers, all united by a mission to help patients and their families through early, non-invasive diagnosis.

Why we need you now
Through our ongoing clinical programs, we are collecting what we believe to be the best clinical speech datasets for training models to detect neurological disease, in terms of the study design, the speech tasks and the scale of the data. This puts us in a unique position to develop the first speech-based diagnostic tests that can be integrated into the clinic and actually work. We’ve built a great research team but we’re lacking the engineering knowhow and infrastructure we need to maximize the quality and speed of our research – and to productize and integrate this research into the clinic. So we urgently need someone to help us with this now, and to grow and lead our engineering team in the longer term.

What will you actually do

• Building out best-in-class MLOps and CI/CD pipelines to increase the speed and quality of our research and engineering output.
• Developing our internal and open-source packages. For example, take a look at our GitHub repos.
• Overseeing the development of a HIPAA-compliant infrastructure for handling patient data.
• Forging our technical/business strategy along with senior management.
• Helping define a great engineering culture and leading engineering hiring.
• Preparing to productize our research, deploy it behind APIs, integrate it with NHS systems and get it into the hands of doctors.

Who are you

• Strong background in computer science and software development/DevOps, either academically or through industry experience.
• >2 years' experience in a general-purpose language (including Java, C/C++, Python, Objective C, JavaScript, React or Go).
• Experience with (or potential for) leading technical teams and setting technical direction.
• Excited about being part of a small, quickly growing startup. You want to be a part of our ambitious project. You do not mind the uncertainty that comes with early stage startups.
• Working in healthcare is something that excites you.

Job perks

• Competitive salary and equity options arrangement.
• 28 days of paid holiday.
• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid remote work policy.
• A deep sense of meaning, having a significant role in changing the way brain diseases are diagnosed, improving the lives of millions.
• High degree of responsibility and the opportunity to grow into a senior role as the company scales.
• Personal development plan and half a day per week to work on your own projects.

Interested?

Please apply through our careers page rather than Angel: https://novoic.com/careers