Neuralink

Software Engineer, CI/CD

Neuralink$123K — $216K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Deep experience with Bazel or similar build systems
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
  • Production experience with GitLab CI, including pipeline architecture
  • Expertise in UNIX systems, specifically Linux and Mac
  • Familiarity with Nix for reproducible builds
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale the CI/CD platform for various engineering teams
  • Own software/firmware build tooling at scale
  • Operate and scale a runner fleet across on-prem and cloud clusters
  • Maintain reproducible build environments with Nix
  • Instrument CI health using Prometheus and Grafana
  • Reduce developer cycle time through caching and optimization

Benefits

  • Opportunity to change the world alongside top experts
  • Rapid growth potential for impactful team members
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Paid holidays and commuter benefits
  • Provided meals
  • Equity compensation in the form of RSUs
  • 401(k) plan with matching contributions
  • Parental leave and flexible time off
Full Job Description
Team Description:

The Infrastructure Team builds the foundation that enables the company to operate safely, robustly, and move at light-speed. We run a mixture of cloud-based and on-prem systems and have a user base spanning from highly technically proficient engineers to non-technical scientists and doctors; but all of them need solid systems, rugged networking, and bullet-proof software to do their jobs.

Job Responsibilities and Description:

As a Software Engineer, CICD you will integrate tightly with teams across the company, and span all layers of the work environment stack, from deployment of physical hardware on the manufacturing line, to custom tooling to stream neural recordings from implants. You will:
  • Design and scale the CI/CD platform that enables engineering teams to ship safely and quickly across verticals including, but not limited to, Brain Implant, Surgical Robot, BCI App, Clinical, Full-stack services and infrastructure
  • Own the software/firmware build tooling at scale. This includes remote caching, remote execution, target identification and selection, etc.
  • Operate and scale a runner fleet spanning on-prem and cloud clusters, cover multiple hardware platforms including Mac, Linux, Embedded devices and Hardware-in-the-loop fixtures
  • Maintain reproducible build and CI environments with Nix
  • Instrument CI health with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and automated alerting to maintain high signal-to-noise on pipeline reliability
  • Reduce developer cycle time through pre-commit tooling, caching strategies, test sharding, and build graph optimization

Tech Stack:
  • Rust, Python
  • Terraform
  • Bazel and Nix
  • Kubernetes
  • GitLab CI
  • AWS
  • Darwin, Ubuntu, Fedora

Required Qualifications:
  • Deep experience operating Bazel, or similar hermetic build systems
  • Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes
  • Production experience with GitLab CI (or comparable CI platform), including pipeline architecture, runner fleet management, and custom executor integrations
  • Expertise in operating UNIX systems, including Linux and Mac
  • Familiarity with Nix for reproducible environments, or equivalent experience ensuring hermetic, cacheable builds
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Familiarity with hardware in the loop testing setups
  • Experience working with build system and CI tooling in a monorepo context


Expected Compensation:

The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the following range. Your actual base pay will be determined by your job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We also believe in aligning our employees' success with the company's long-term growth. As such, in addition to base salary, Neuralink offers equity compensation (in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSU)) for all full-time employees.

Base Salary Range:

$123,000-$216,000 USD

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 (RSUs) *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
  • 401(k) plan *Interns initially excluded until they work 1,000 hours
  • Parental leave *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
  • Flexible time off *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded

About Neuralink

Neuralink Corporation is a neurotechnology company that develops implantable brain?machine interfaces (BMIs). The company was founded in 2016 by Elon Musk, Ben Rapoport, Dongjin Seo, Max Hodak, Paul Merolla, Philip Sabes, Tim Hanson, and Vanessa Tolosa. Neuralink's headquarters is located in San Francisco, California. The company's goal is to enable humans to communicate with computers and other devices using their thoughts. Neuralink's technology involves implanting electrodes into the brain that can read and write electrical signals. The company has not yet released a product, but has conducted successful tests on animals.
Learn more about Neuralink
Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2016

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