Electrical Engineer

Company Description:

We are creating the future of brain-computer interfaces: building devices now that have the potential to help people with paralysis regain mobility and independence and invent new technologies that could expand our abilities, our community, and our world.

Team Description:

The Surgery & Robotics Hardware Team is looking for Electrical Engineers who want to shape the future of neurosurgery and neurosurgical implants. Our team is responsible for all electrical engineering aspects of a Neuralink surgery which include designing our surgical robotics, supporting operating room equipment, and manufacturing custom consumables.

The core device you will work on is our custom robot system. The goal of our team and this device is to fully automate the implantation of our N1 implant. To do this, we design and integrate technologies such as a 9 DOF robot for electrode implantation, compute, vision systems, optical coherence tomography tissue imaging, power electronics, copper and optical networking, and safety systems such as e-stops, interlocks, and collision avoidance hardware.

We also design the hardware to produce consumables such as our electropolished needles and laser-machined needle cartridges. Additional core activities of our team include bring-up testing and manufacturing.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

As an Electrical Engineer on the Surgery & Robot Hardware Team, you will be expected to design, verify, and oversee the transition to production of a variety of custom electronics systems. This role offers substantial autonomy and the exciting opportunity to own creative decisions and execute on new, impactful projects such as actuator/robotics stage designs, end effectors for robots, image-capture pipelines, telemetry systems, networking architectures, and patient sensors/tools.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience in “full stack” ownership of circuit board designs through architecture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, testing, and production
  • At least one of these designs must be deployed and in use
• Design experience integrating microcontrollers, FPGAs, or SoMs into mixed signal PCBAs
  • Peripherals such as UART, I2C, SPI, 802.3 interfaces and camera interfaces such as MIPI-CSI
  • Capable of bringing these designs up by writing basic test firmware
• Practical electronics design knowledge including designing for EMC, ESD, thermals and packaging

Preferred Qualifications:

• A portfolio showcasing your hardware designs
• Demonstrable experience in developing electronics for critical systems in fields such as medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or military
• Competency in one of the following software languages: C, C++, Python, or Rust
• Experience designing products for IEC 60601 compliance

Pay Transparency:

Based on California law, the following details are for California individuals only:

California base salary range:

$73,000—$197,000 USD

For Full-Time Employees, your compensation package will include two major components: salary and equity. Guidance on salary for this role will be determined according to the level at which you enter the organization, with the ability to gain more over time as you contribute. In addition, Full-Time Employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields
• Growth potential; we rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan
• Paid holidays
• Commuter benefits
• Meals provided
• Equity + 401(k) plan *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
• Parental leave *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
• Flexible time off *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded

Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates won't apply if they don't meet every listed qualification. Neuralink values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!

Neuralink provides equal opportunity in all of our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, training and social, and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.

If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the interview process, please let us know. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in those processes. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview