Senior Biostatistician
Company: Beacon Biosignals
Location: Boston
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Beacon Biosignals is on a mission to revolutionize precision
medicine for the brain. We are the leading at-home EEG platform
supporting clinical development of novel therapeutics for
neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our FDA
510(k)-cleared Waveband EEG headband and AI algorithms enable
quantitative biomarker discovery and implementation. Beacon’s
Clinico-EEG database contains EEG data from nearly 100,000
patients, and our cloud-native analytics platform powers
large-scale RWD/RWE retrospective and predictive studies. Beacon
Biosignals is changing the way that patients are treated for any
disorder that affects brain physiology. Beacon Biosignals is
seeking an experienced data scientist/biostatistician to help us
collect, ingest, analyze, and interpret petabytes of EEG data to
drive advancements in brain health. This role is part of the
Biostatistics function within Beacon's Data Science Group. The Data
Science Group is a diverse set of talented, dedicated individuals
with expertise across neuroscience, biostatistics, data wrangling,
and more, who collaborate across the organization and externally to
answer scientific questions with data. In this role, you'll work in
cross-functional teams to support Beacon's Life Sciences
engagements with industry partners that power novel therapies for
patients with neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders.
You'll also collaborate with scientists, engineers, and clinicians
to draw meaningful insights from real-world data and accelerate
neurobiomarker discovery. This role reports to the manager of the
Data Science Group. At Beacon, we've found that cultural and
scientific impact is driven most by those who lead by example. As
such, we're always seeking out new contributors whose work
demonstrates innate curiosity, a bias toward simplicity, an eye for
composability, a self-service mindset, and—most of all—a deep
empathy toward colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We
believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves
higher impact. Beacon's robust asynchronous work practices ensure a
first-class remote work experience, but we also have in-person
office hubs located in Boston, New York City, and Paris. For this
position, candidates based in the United States are preferred to
minimize logistical hurdles and maximize timezone overlap with
colleagues and partners. What success looks like Lead and support
the development of statistical analysis plans for clinical trials
in collaboration with internal subject matter experts and external
stakeholders. Perform power and sample size calculations that
ensure our and our partners' studies are powered appropriately to
measure meaningful effects on the brain. Deliver clear and
impactful presentations and data visualizations to varied
audiences, both internal and external. Lead and support the
scientific and technical aspects of multiple concurrent studies,
including timeline estimation, task delegation, timely execution,
and stakeholder communication. Engage with external stakeholders to
align their needs with internal capabilities and capacities to
ensure analyses bring maximal value while remaining operationally
feasible. Contribute to group-level processes and procedures to
help make projects run more smoothly and efficiently. Co-author
scientific reports whose impact pushes the field past contemporary
limitations. Write and review reusable, documented, tested code
that produces polished, high quality analytical results for our
partners and powers our core computational pipelines. Leverage
Beacon's products and your own subject matter expertise to inform
analysis planning and execution. Dig into large, messy, unfamiliar
datasets, document their idiosyncrasies and provenance, and
harmonize them with Beacon's datastore. What you will bring You've
spent multiple years in industry using your expertise in
(frequentist) biostatistics to design and analyze clinical trials.
You're deeply familiar with statistical modeling, including
interpretation and diagnostics. You pick the right statistical tool
for the job and, perhaps most importantly, you know when that tool
is not a model. You have substantial experience presenting analyses
to external audiences of varied backgrounds; you've learned the
hard way what does and does not make an understandable and
impactful presentation. You thrive in a fast-paced, highly
customer-facing environment. You have experience writing and
reviewing code in a shared, version-controlled codebase with
multiple contributors and users. You write unit tests and
documentation to ensure correctness and usability. You're painfully
aware that thoughtful data curation is a prerequisite to analysis
results that hold up under practical application. You love teamwork
and recognize that people can achieve more together than
individually. You value close collaboration, open communication,
and tight feedback loops to ensure you and your team are working
together effectively and doing your best work. You have excellent
written and verbal communication and listening skills. You stay
calm and organized to meet tight deadlines amidst ambiguity. You're
familiar with and/or are excited to work with the technologies that
power Beacon's data and reporting systems, including Julia, AWS,
Superset, Pandoc, SQL, and GraphQL. You have exceptional attention
to detail and maintain a high standard of quality in your work and
output, but you also know when "quick and dirty" is the right
approach. You're comfortable working in a highly asynchronous
hybrid work environment, and have demonstrated success doing so in
the past. We welcome applicants who are well established in their
careers and those who bring senior-level expertise. The salary
range for this role is $165,000 – $183,000. Salary ranges are
determined using current market compensation data for this role and
adjusted based on experience, skills, and location The base salary
is one component of the total compensation package, which includes
equity, PTO and other benefits. At Beacon, we've found that
cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by
example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work
demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye
for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a
deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients.
We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves
higher impact.
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