Software Engineer, Neuralink
Hippocampus Team
$119-200k
+ Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
5 days a week in office
Brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers
Open for applications
Brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$119-200k
+ Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.
Role
Who you are
- If you are obsessed with smooth user experience and love to iterate rapidly on software, you may be a good fit for this role!
- Our ideal candidate has accomplished a record of outstanding achievement in software engineering
- Successful candidates will be highly adaptable, able to deploy core technical and creative skills to tackle a wide range of problems, and have a keen sense of urgency
- Most important: You must have led a team to deliver a product or feature that had a clear impact
- Evidence of exceptional ability in software engineering
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated work experience
- 1-2+ years of experience leading teams and owning the success of a product
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience understanding requirements and delivering iteratively
- A strong eye for user experience and polished user interfaces
What the job involves
- The Hippocampus Software Team works closely with other teams—neuroscientists, physicists, roboticists, chip designers, pathologists, and mechanical engineers—to build Neuralink’s centralized data aggregation and analysis platform
- This data platform collects, organizes, and visualizes a diverse set of data ranging from neural signal recordings and brain histology images to microfabrication manufacturing data
- Our team owns projects that drive engineering and experimentation at Neuralink
- We operate like an internal startup – rapidly prototyping and building software that solves problems for the company
- This usually takes the form of full-stack tools, but can be any tech stack
- As a Software Engineer on the Hippocampus Team, you will have the opportunity to impact engineering and experimentation at Neuralink
- You will fully own and drive projects, from interfacing with stakeholders and gathering requirements, to delivering exceptional software
- Take end-to-end ownership of software development projects, including, but not limited to, full-stack development and cutting-edge data engineering work
- Gather requirements in ambiguous problem spaces and design elegant solutions
- Participate in design reviews and code reviews of other team members' projects
- Work directly and iteratively with stakeholders to grow MVPs into mature solutions
- Own the design, development, and testing of software development projects
- Deliver results. You may enjoy thoughtful conversations about problems and perfecting designs, but in the end, you know that what matters is delivering a solution that works
- Be a cross-disciplinary team member. You are excited to work with and learn from software, mechanical, electrical, materials, and biological engineers, as well as neuroscientists. You are comfortable communicating across teams
- Be resourceful, flexible, and adaptable; no task is too big or too small
- Jobs at Neuralink are highly dynamic; depending on your skills and our needs, you may work across a wide range of projects, from interpreting neural data to analyzing histology, developing surgical tools, or creating brand-new BCI approaches
Our take
Neuralink is a company developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers. Its primary objective is to help people with paralysis to gain more autonomy in their everyday lives, with the possibility that its tech will be used to enhance the abilities of the wider community further in the future.
For many, brain implants such as those being developed by Neuralink belong firmly in the realm of sci-fi. That said, the idea of interfacing machines with the brain for medical purposes has existed for some time, with examples including cochlear implants and Deep Brain Stimulation. Having secured FDA approval, Neuralink is now able to move ahead with human trials - a significant step in its ambitious proposals becoming a reality.
The approval seems to have made the company more appealing to investors, and Neuralink has since raised considerable funds towards advancing its research. It should be noted, though, that despite this positive attention, much discussion surrounding the company regards its animal testing practices which - some sources say - may have resulted in more animal deaths than necessary as staff were pressured to push for the FDA approval. Despite the ethical debate surrounding Neuralink's practices, 2024 saw Elon Musk, the CEO of Neuralink, announce that the first Brain-computer-interface (BCI) patient can successfully move a mouse around a computer screen just by thinking.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$650m
SERIES E
Aug 2023
$323m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company 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
- Flexible time off + paid holidays
- Equity + 401(k) plan
- Commuter Benefits
- Meals provided
- Parental leave
Company HQ
Fremont, CA
Leadership
Max Hodak
(President)Founder and CEO of Science. Former Founder and CEO at Transcriptic, and previously at MyFit. Was a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Center for 4 years.
Elon Musk
(CEO)Founder, Chairman, CEO and CTO of SpaceX. CEO and Product Architect at Tesla. Owner, Chairman and CTO of X Corp. Co-founder of OpenAI, and President of the Musk Foundation.
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