Software Engineer - HIL Neuralink - 2.3 South San Francisco, CA Job Details Full-time $151,000 - $281,000 a year 1 day ago Benefits Commuter assistance Paid holidays Health insurance Dental insurance 401(k) RSU Parental leave Vision insurance Qualifications Robot troubleshooting Software engineering Rust (programming language) Software troubleshooting Automation Tooling Firmware Mid-level Production systems Analysis skills Release management System validation Continuous integration Developing automated testing protocols Engineering functional testing AI-driven automation Test analysis Python Debugging Robot simulation

Full Job Description 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. 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.

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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.

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