Mechanical Engineer, Implant Testing

General     ·     Fremont, CA    ·   Full time

Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers. We are building a team of multidisciplinary experts passionate about making a world-changing impact.

As a Mechanical Reliability & Test Engineer working on our implant team, you will be responsible for designing and developing test infrastructure to reduce hardware development and manufacturing time, increase reliability, and drive improvements of the Neuralink implant, charger, and accessories. Our test engineers design and build scalable test equipment, run simulations and analyses, plan and conduct experiments, and develop test methodology and criteria. 

About you:

• 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.
• You thrive in working autonomously. You are excited to take on all challenges and responsibilities for a project and enjoy the freedom of owning all the details of the solution. You need minimal supervision or oversight.
• Resourceful, flexible and adaptable; no task is too big or too small.

Key qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering, or equivalent in experience and ability.
• 4+ years of mechanical engineering experience.
• 2+ year of industry mechanical engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of engineering first principles.
• Technical and experimental documentation experience, including writing experimental procedures and lab reports.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with python and writing test scripts.
• Experience designing hardware test systems from the ground up.
• Experience performing finite element analysis (FEA).
• Experience in a lab environment.

What we offer:

• An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and the 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; parental leave.
• Flexible time off + paid holidays.
• Equity + 401(k) plan.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Meals provided.

Neuralink provides equal opportunity in all of our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws.  This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, training and social, and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.