Senior Cognitive Scientist

Job title: Senior Cognitive Scientist

Department: Science

Reporting to: Francesca Cormack, Chief Scientist

People Manager? No

Location: Hybrid, ideally with at least 2 days a week from our Bottisham office

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Ideally full-time (Monday to Friday) although 4 days a week could be considered for the right candidate

Salary: £50,000 to £70,000 depending on experience

We are a talented global team based in the UK, Canada and USA. Backed by over 30 years of scientific discovery and validation, Cambridge Cognition offers the end-to-end platform for CNS clinical trials. Our technologies are reliable in-clinic or at home for an improved patient experience and accelerated drug development.

We aim to make an extraordinary impact by improving the health of people worldwide with innovative assessments and digital biomarkers that provide researchers with precise measures of patients’ symptoms. We lead in CNS research and are broadening our impact across therapeutic areas.

Are you interested in working for a company whose main goal is to make a difference to the health of current and future generations, through the knowledge and experience of our passionate team?

This is an opportunity for a cognitive scientist to play a central role in building a high-quality paediatric normative dataset for our digital cognitive assessments. The project is large, multi-site and time-sensitive, so we are looking for someone who enjoys bringing scientific rigour, structure and momentum to complex research programmes. The successful candidate will combine expertise in digital cognitive assessment, preferably in paediatric populations, with strong project management skills to coordinate data collection, support sites, manage data pipelines and help resolve operational challenges.

The role offers the chance to contribute to work with clear scientific and real-world impact. For the right candidate, there will be opportunities to analyse the data, contribute to publications and presentations, and help demonstrate the value of digital cognitive assessments for paediatric patients across therapeutic areas. This work will support clinical trials, academic research and healthcare applications, while helping establish robust digital measures for use with children and young people.

Digital cognitive assessments can only deliver real-world benefit for children and young people if they are built on rigorous, representative normative data. This role sits at the heart of that effort: you will play a central part in delivering a high-quality paediatric normative dataset for our digital cognitive assessments, supporting their use in clinical trials, academic research and healthcare settings across therapeutic areas.

The programme is large, multi-site and time-sensitive, so we're looking for someone who brings scientific rigour, structure and momentum to complex research, someone who values progress over perfection, asks why when something isn't working, and isn't afraid to propose a better way forward. You'll combine expertise in digital cognitive assessment, ideally with paediatric populations, with strong project management skills: supporting sites, managing data pipelines and resolving operational challenges as they arise.

For the right candidate, this role offers an exciting opportunity to analyse the data, contribute to publications and conference presentations, and help demonstrate the value of digital cognitive measurement for paediatric patients, driving real-world impact.

• Support evaluation of data collection approaches, make practical recommendations and support contracting with relevant partners.

• Identify, onboard and support data collection sites, ensuring they have the software, hardware and paper-based scales needed to collect high-quality data.

• Review incoming data in near-real time against the quality framework to identify completeness issues, anomalies and protocol deviations.

• Coordinate delivery of data collection across sites and testing cohorts, working closely with internal and external teams.

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