About this role
Neuralink
Actively Hiring
Ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers
Growing fast
Showed strong hiring growth in the past month
Growing fast
Showed strong hiring growth in the past month
Software Engineer - HIL
- $151k – $281k
- | Austin • South San Francisco
- |Full Time
Posted: today• Recruiter recently active
Job Location
Austin • South San Francisco
Visa Sponsorship Not Available
RelocationNot Allowed
About the job
The Role
Neuralink’s next generation surgical robot will perform brain surgery at scale, installing hundreds of tiny threads into the brain to enable brain computer communication.
You will own the robot’s Hardware In the Loop (HIL) test system. Exercise the production surgical robot, controllers and firmware against controlled inputs, reproduce faults, and automate verification. Your HIL will enable unattended test & verification to run day and night. Your work will help deliver reliable surgical robots at scale, bringing Neuralink to more people.
What you’ll do
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Build and maintain robot HIL — real hardware running production software and firmware.
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Write automated HIL tests for integration, timing, faults, and bring-up.
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Define pass/fail, coverage, and acceptance criteria.
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Wire software-in-the-loop tests, HIL tests, and hardware acceptance into one CI pipeline with logs, traces, and reproducible results.
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Own release-gating tests. When a failure escapes sim or HIL, you reproduce it and close the coverage gap.
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Note: The team is hiring engineers at all levels, both junior and senior. What matters most is evidence of exceptional abilities and a drive to succeed.
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What we’re looking for
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Strong Rust skills; Python for test tooling and analysis. Comfortable close to drivers, firmware, and buses.
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Experience with HIL, test rigs, or system-level verification on robots, vehicles, or similar hardware.
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Experience debugging async and concurrent systems, RPC, telemetry, and timing failures across software and firmware.
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Experience building automated test pipelines. Bazel experience is a plus.
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Effective at using AI agents to accelerate work while maintaining quality.
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Obsession with repeatability, edge cases, and traceability.
About the company
Neuralink
Actively Hiring
Ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers51-200 Employees
Austin
51-200
Startup
Artificial Intelligence
Biotech
Medical Device
Software Development
Electronics
Biotechnology
Medical
Medical Devices
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Neuroscience
Software
Electronics
Mechanical Solutions
Growing fast
Showed strong hiring growth in the past month
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Funding
AMOUNT RAISED
$363M
FUNDED OVER
3 rounds
Rounds
C $205000000
Series C - Jul 2021+2
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Perks
Healthcare benefits Excellent medical, dental and vision insurance through a PPO plan
Equity benefits
Generous vacation
Company meals Meals provided daily
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