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:
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 inventing new technologies that could expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
From day one, you will be boots-on-the-ground with engineers in support of our products. You will execute and improve design control activities and work with multiple engineering teams (Surgery, Implant, Robot), learning the existing frameworks and developing a process that’s sustainable and scalable. The ideal candidate is someone with an engineering mindset with strong design controls and risk management skills, with the ability to parse important details from ambiguity, and who is comfortable collaborating with product development engineers and manufacturing engineers. You will help the nascent products in the pipeline efficiently complete medical-grade design and manufacturing processes and, by doing so, ensure the highest standard of product reliability and performance.
Job Responsibilities and Description:
- Ensure that compliance with customer requirements, risk management, quality, and design control standards is demonstrated throughout design and development projects, with a particular emphasis on Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) or Software in a Medical Device (SiMD) applications.
- Facilitate the successful transfer of designs to manufacturing, ensuring that software components meet medical device regulatory standards.
- Participate in decisions regarding the scope of work, selection of materials, equipment, test methodologies, design reviews, and design changes, specifically focusing on software elements within medical devices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop, apply, revise, and maintain quality and regulatory standards for designing and processing materials and products into partially or finished medical device products, including software components.
- Implement methods by working alongside engineers to inspect, test, and evaluate the precision and accuracy of software and/or production equipment.
- Diagnose and resolve manufacturing and quality system issues related to software components in medical devices.
- Participate in design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound start-up of new software processes.
- Generate and maintain risk management files supporting product development, including Risk Management Plans/Reports, Hazard Analyses, FMEAs, Design Trace Matrices, Post Market Surveillance plans, and other related documents, with a focus on software-related risks.
- Provide guidance and generate reports on topics involving statistical analysis, including sample size requirements, process capability analysis, regression analysis, tolerance interval analysis, and ANOVA, as they pertain to software testing and validation.
- Support Product/Process Development Engineering in optimization activities by guiding Design of Experiments of various process parameters and analyzing data related to software performance.
- Follows all safety and production standard operating procedures
- Use first principles when designing a process ensuring it’s not cumbersome for non QS members, and can support rapid iterations.
- Defining problems as much as solving them.
- Know that what matters is delivering a solution that works every time and is efficient for engineers.
- Work collaboratively with cross-disciplinary team members, including software, mechanical, electrical, materials, biological engineers, and neuroscientists, to integrate software solutions seamlessly into medical devices.
- Resourceful, flexible and adaptable; no task is too big or too small.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in science or engineering, or equivalent in experience and ability.
- Experience with medical device best practices and regulatory requirements for FDA and/or international bodies, specifically concerning SaMD and SiMD.
- Strong understanding of engineering first principles as they apply to software development.
- Experience with SaMD/SiMD quality systems, risk management, and compliance.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Relentless attention to quality.
- Experience building processes that are scalable.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience with rigorous design control processes in the medical device industry, particularly related to software development.
- 1+ years of experience working in risk management, with a focus on software-related risks in medical devices.
Pay Transparency:
Based on California law, the following details are for California individuals only:
California base salary range:
$78,000—$169,000 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
Top Skills
What We Do
Neuralink is a team of exceptionally talented people. We are creating the future of brain-machine interfaces: building devices now that will help people with paralysis and inventing new technologies that will expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
Our goal is to build a system with at least two orders of magnitude more communication channels (electrodes) than current clinically-approved devices. This system needs to be safe, it must have fully wireless communication through the skin, and it has to be ready for patients to take home and use on their own. Our device, called the Link, will be able to record from 1024 electrodes and is designed to meet these criteria.
