About Neuralink:
We are creating devices that enable a bi-directional interface with the brain. These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed, restore sight to the blind, and revolutionize how humans interact with their digital world.
Team Description:
The Surgery Engineering team is responsible for developing and managing custom hardware and processes for neurosurgical procedures, excluding the R1 Robot and Operator Station. Their responsibilities encompass the entire surgical process, including patient positioning, incision management, craniectomy, precise implant placement, thread management during robot-assisted insertion, surgical site irrigation, implant installation, and closure. Additionally, the team ensures safe explantation and upgrade procedures for implants. They also provide mechanical engineering support to the animal care, histology, and BCI teams, contributing to the success of complex neurosurgical procedures and related research activities.
Job Description and Responsibilities:
As a Mechanical Engineer on the Surgery Engineering Team, you will be responsible for the reliability and sustainment engineering of existing surgery hardware. Additionally, you will be expected to:
- Design and implement hardware improvements based on user feedback
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions for hardware issues encountered in the field
- Manage preclinical and clinical inventory, including demand forecasting, production planning, and physical inventory management
- Provide in-person hardware support for surgeries conducted on pre-clinical animal models
- Optimize the surgical process to ensure positive patient outcomes, reduce the skill level required to conduct the surgery, and increase surgery efficiency
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 1-3 years of mechanical design experience, including internships
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with industrial engineering, working on a manufacturing line, or optimizing manufacturing processes
- Experience managing inventory
- Experience working on safety-critical systems
Expected Compensation:
At Neuralink, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will be determined by your job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
What We Offer:
Full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.
- 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
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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.
