Mechanical Engineering Intern, Neuralink

• 6+ months experience of in the application of technical skills outside of the classroom (examples depending on the role: laboratory, research, extracurricular project teams, open source contributions, volunteering, personal projects or prior internship/work experience)
• Strong understanding of engineering first principles
• Available for a Fall 2025 internship (September) or a later season
• Resourceful, flexible and adaptable; no task is too big or too small
• You find large challenges exciting and enjoy discovering and defining problems as much as solving them
• You deliver. You may enjoy thoughtful conversations about problems and perfecting designs, but in the end, you know that what matters is delivering a manufacturable solution that works every time
• You are a cross-disciplinary team member. You are excited to work with and learn from software, mechanical, electrical, materials, biological engineers, and neuroscientists. You are comfortable communicating across teams

Desirable

• The Robotics & Surgery Engineering Team is developing our next-generation surgical platform to facilitate bringing our cutting-edge brain implant to more of those in need
• We’re working on driving surgery time and invasiveness down, while pushing safety and accuracy to their maximums
• As a Mechanical Engineering Intern at Neuralink, you will have the opportunity to design and produce hardware solutions for our brain-machine interface devices, including surgical robotics, automation, microfabrication, and more
• You will get to own projects from concept to production, utilizing your mechanical engineering background in the challenging field of brain-machine interfaces
• The role involves collaboration with neuroscientists, biologists, and engineers to determine design criteria and build systems quickly and effectively