Operations Lead

About Arbor Neuroscience

(formerly Forest Neurotech)

Arbor is a nonprofit research organization working on one of the hardest open problems in clinical neuroscience: how to change brain circuits by design.

Millions of people with depression, chronic pain, and other brain disorders have no treatment that works. Modulating activity in the brain circuits underlying their symptoms – with electrical stimulation, focused ultrasound, or magnetic stimulation – can work spectacularly well. But it doesn't work reliably, and we can't predict who it will help.

That's what Arbor aims to fix. The starting point is a new class of experiment: intervene, measure how the circuit responds, track the symptom, and repeat in the same individual over months. We’re building the necessary experimental platform. It currently includes the Forest 1 ultrasound system, which works like a wearable functional MRI, but with higher resolution. The system images activity across large brain volumes, including deep brain structures, and will soon stimulate as well. We are also adding electrode-based interfaces in animal studies. From these data, we'll build models to make neuromodulation predictable.

Arbor is a Focused Research Organization within the Convergent Research family, and the new name for Forest Neurotech. We're a mission-focused nonprofit, doing multidisciplinary translational work that doesn't fit in a lab or on a company roadmap. We have the funding to run the first phase, and we're a small team – the people we hire now will shape what Arbor becomes.

The Role

What You’ll Do

• Interface with Convergent Research on finance, HR, contract, and vendor relations
• Run recruiting, including some sourcing, owning scheduling and candidate experience, and onboarding
• Own the operational side of our partnerships with hardware and research collaborators, alongside the scientific leads
• Help prepare board materials, funder reports, and proposal packages, and keep the commitments in them tracked
• Set up internal systems, processes, and documentation that streamline our work
• Take on open-ended problems: evaluate an opportunity, research a question, unblock a project, and come back with a recommendation
• Help build Arbor’s culture

Who We’re Looking For

• Evidence you've built something operational where nothing existed, and made it work
• The judgment to know which problems need a system and which just need someone to handle them
• Strong writing ability
• Enough technical curiosity and knowledge to follow a scientific or engineering conversation and know what matters
• Directness without friction – you say what you think, ask when you don't know, and aren't looking to compete with your colleagues

Our benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision – most plans fully covered for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with up to 6% match
• Company-paid life and AD&D, with voluntary supplemental options
• 15 holidays plus a floating day for your birthday
• 3 weeks PTO increasing with tenure, and separate sick leave

Arbor will consider sponsorship for U.S. work authorization case by case. Sponsorship isn't guaranteed, and immigration timelines can affect start dates. Where we sponsor, we cover the legal and government fees.

Arbor is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on talent and experience and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.