Senior Software Engineer, Robotics

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:

Our robotics integrate actuated devices with microelectromechanical systems as well as novel surgical procedures. These applications place a strong emphasis on high-precision, high-repeatability mechanical motion, as well as high reliability and fail-safe design. You will be responsible for writing software and making sure your code works on an actual surgical robot, not just simulation.

Neuralink strives to be a meritocratic environment: we require honest and transparent communication to ensure the best ideas win out, and we believe the best solutions emerge and the best teams are created when you assemble high-performing individuals and allow them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We want to work with exceptional people, and, to the extent that you excel, we want you to take on more responsibility and help all of us succeed. If this speaks to you, come join us.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

• Write software code and ensure the software codes work on surgical robots
• Create software applications that place a strong emphasis on high-precision and high-repeatability mechanical motion, high reliability, and fail-safe design
• Design and ship software for brain surgical robots in compliance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Write latency sensitive and safety critical production software code. Build low latency and high-resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) based imaging solutions
• Build end to end photo realistic robot simulators. Build automated hardware in the loop testing infrastructure for medical device software
• Troubleshoot software in the neurosurgery context. Integrate actuated devices with micro-electromechanical systems and novel surgical procedures

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field, plus five (5) years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupation
• Designing and shipping software for brain surgical robots in compliance with the FDA
• Writing latency sensitive and safety critical production code in C++, Java, and Python
• Building low latency and high-resolution OCT based imaging solutions
• Building end to end photo realistic robot simulators
• Building automated hardware in the loop testing infrastructure for medical device software
• Administrating modern Linux systems in production environments
• Software troubleshooting in a neurosurgery context
• Computer vision, kinematics, and motion planning

Pay Transparency:

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

California base salary range:  $163,696—$204,000 USDFor 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