Interspecies Engineer

Multiple roles including Embedded, Machine Learning, Hardware, Mechanical, Product Design and Mangaement, Cognitive Science and more.

We are looking to assemble a world-class engineering and science team to do what no one has done before - quantitatively decipher the dog’s sense of smell. This will involve solving novel and challenging problems across domains of neurotechnology, electronic/mechanical design, olfactory science, embedded systems, signal processing, computational modeling, cognitive neuroscience and machine learning.

Some things you’ll get to build at Dognosis -

• Improve upon the hardware of the world’s most functional canine brain-computer interface
• Build the hardware and software backend of an automated biomedical detection dogs olfactory workstation - SniffSpace - that will involve developing automated mechano-electrical components, IO points, and sensors
• Grapple with challenging problems in embedded systems, signal processing, edge machine learning, and cognitive neuroscience to derive meaningful inferences on a dog’s internal state.
• Take on one of the most exciting ML problems - using AI to understand another species - by building pipelines and models on large amounts of multi-modal data.
• Much much more

We don’t care much for credentials or years of formal experience. If you have high agency, creativity and technical ability, we'd like to chat. We’re especially interested in high-caliber generalists who see past traditional domain boundaries and can work across the stack - both the physical and digital worlds.

We are very much a non-virtual company, dogs after all cannot live in the cloud. For full-time roles, we expect you to relocate to Bangalore and commute regularly (at least 3 days a week) to our lab in Electronic City. We are open to remote part-time or internship roles where you’d work on design and data analysis problems.

We are willing to pay competitive salaries as well as offer generous ESOPS. You also get to hang out with 8 dogs.

Our goal is to ensure the early diagnosis of 5M+ people in India who develop cancer every year, 80% of whom are currently diagnosed too late (stage III-IV) with legacy cancer screening covering less than 1% of Indians. As early diagnosis leads to treatment that is 5-10x less expensive and 5-25x more successful, we expect to provide significant value and save lives.

We will do this by working with dogs and AI to develop a breath-based cancer-screening test that is ultra-affordable, accessible, acceptable and accurate.