Electrical Engineer, Robotics

About the position

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. The Surgery & Robotics Hardware Team is looking for Electrical Engineers who want to shape the future of neurosurgery and neurosurgical implants. Our team is responsible for all electrical engineering aspects of a Neuralink surgery which include designing our surgical robotics, supporting operating room equipment, and manufacturing custom consumables. The core device you will work on is our custom robot system. The goal of our team and this device is to fully automate the implantation of our N1 implant. To do this, we design and integrate technologies such as a 9 DOF robot for electrode implantation, compute, vision systems, optical coherence tomography tissue imaging, power electronics, copper and optical networking, and safety systems such as e-stops, interlocks, and collision avoidance hardware. We also design the hardware to produce consumables such as our electropolished needles and laser-machined needle cartridges. Additional core activities of our team include bring-up testing and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Design, verify, and oversee the transition to production of a variety of custom electronics systems.
• Own creative decisions and execute on new, impactful projects such as actuator/robotics stage designs, end effectors for robots, image-capture pipelines, telemetry systems, networking architectures, and patient sensors/tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience in 'full stack' ownership of circuit board designs through architecture, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout, testing, and production.
• At least one of these designs must be deployed and in use.
• Design experience integrating microcontrollers, FPGAs, or SoMs into mixed signal PCBAs.
• Experience with peripherals such as UART, I2C, SPI, 802.3 interfaces and camera interfaces such as MIPI-CSI.
• Capable of bringing these designs up by writing basic test firmware.
• Practical electronics design knowledge including designing for EMC, ESD, thermals and packaging.

Nice-to-haves

• A portfolio showcasing your hardware designs.
• Demonstrable experience in developing electronics for critical systems in fields such as medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or military.
• Competency in one of the following software languages: C, C++, Python, or Rust.
• Experience designing products for IEC 60601 compliance.

Benefits

• 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).