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 Preclinical Team is responsible for designing, conducting, documenting, analyzing, and reporting preclinical studies. Our team provides a means for ensuring the safe, effective, and robust implantation of Neuralink devices into animals and, ultimately, humans.
Job Responsibilities and Description:
The Study Manager is a staff scientist who will interact with Neuralink’s technical and clinical teams, as well as senior staff, to ensure that preclinical bench, pilot, R&D, and safety studies are carried out, critical data is gathered to support regulatory filings, and methods comply with good laboratory practices (GLP), if applicable. You will work closely with a Study Director to compile data, handle reporting, communicate cross-functionally, establish timelines, and eliminate roadblocks that halt progress. Other job responsibilities will include:
- Designing studies
- Serving as the main point of contact for assigned studies
- Writing Protocols
- Interacting directly with the Sponsor, SD, and other teams to:
- Obtain important information for a study
- Establish and monitor timelines
- Ensure SOPs are implemented and adhered to
- Confirm staff trainings are complete
- Following up with key players throughout the study duration and leading key meetings
- Compiling and analyzing data
- Reviewing reports cross-functionally
- Writing final and auxiliary scientific reports
- Generating deviation reports in response to QA audits
- Improving our internal information process and execution, including finalizing details and documents, and generating tracked documents on our internal laboratory management system
- Representing our team across company communication channels
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, natural sciences, or a related field
- Evidence of exceptional technical depth in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, or a related field
- 3+ years of academic or industry experience managing research projects
- Experience working with, or a working knowledge of, medical devices
- Strong understanding of the scientific method and engineering first principles
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage a project, lab, or study
- Exceptional technical writing and data analysis abilities
- Natural capacity to communicate cross-functionally between teams and departments
- Organized and independent worker
- Ability to deliver high-quality results rapidly and consistently without sacrificing quality
- Basic computer skills and proficiency in Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, and Mail
- Skilled in statistical analyses and related software (e.g., Prism, R, SPSS)
- Ability to travel to/from work in Fremont, CA and Austin, TX
Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD in Neuroscience or related field
- Experience with or an understanding of GLP and FDA guidelines
- Experience working alongside technical and operational teams
- Coding skills (e.g., SAS, R, Matlab, Python, SQL) and automated process development
- Experience working with or a working knowledge of medical devices
Work Environment: Office, but could include vivarium, laboratory, and operating room
Pay Transparency:
Based on California law, the following details are for California individuals only:
California base salary range:
$85,000—$131,000 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
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.
