Neuralink

Software Engineer - HIL

Neuralink • $151K — $281K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong Rust programming skills; Python for test tooling and analysis.
  • Experience with Hardware In the Loop (HIL) testing and system-level verification.
  • Proficient in debugging asynchronous and concurrent systems, focusing on timing failures across software and firmware.
  • Experience in building automated test pipelines; familiarity with Bazel is a plus.
  • Effective use of AI agents to enhance testing processes and maintain quality.
  • Strong attention to detail with a focus on repeatability, edge cases, and traceability.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the robot's Hardware In the Loop (HIL) test system.
  • Design and implement automated HIL tests for integration, timing, and fault reproduction.
  • Define criteria for pass/fail assessments, coverage, and overall acceptance.
  • Integrate software-in-the-loop and HIL tests into a comprehensive CI pipeline.
  • Manage release-gating tests, reproducing failures and addressing coverage gaps.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology with top-tier professionals.
  • Rapid career advancement for impactful team members.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance via a PPO plan.
  • Paid holidays and commuter benefits.
  • Provided meals during work hours.
  • Equity compensation through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • Access to a 401(k) plan after 1,000 work hours.
  • Parental leave and flexible time off for full-time employees.
Full Job Description
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
  • Build and maintain robot HIL - real hardware running production software and firmware.
  • Write automated HIL tests for integration, timing, faults, and bring-up.
  • Define pass/fail, coverage, and acceptance criteria.
  • Wire software-in-the-loop tests, HIL tests, and hardware acceptance into one CI pipeline with logs, traces, and reproducible results.
  • Own release-gating tests. When a failure escapes sim or HIL, you reproduce it and close the coverage gap.

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.

What we're looking for
  • Strong Rust skills; Python for test tooling and analysis. Comfortable close to drivers, firmware, and buses.
  • Experience with HIL, test rigs, or system-level verification on robots, vehicles, or similar hardware.
  • Experience debugging async and concurrent systems, RPC, telemetry, and timing failures across software and firmware.
  • Experience building automated test pipelines. Bazel experience is a plus.
  • Effective at using AI agents to accelerate work while maintaining quality.
  • Obsession with repeatability, edge cases, and traceability.


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:

$151,000-$281,000 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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