Mechanical Engineer, Animal Care

Animal Care        ·       Austin, TX       ·       Full time

Are you a mechanical engineer that is excited about excellent animal welfare? 

As a member of the Animal Care Team at Neuralink, you will construct highly innovative housing designs that allow our animals to access their natural behaviors and joy! You will tackle a wide array of challenges from hardware that the animals interact with to equipment that allows our team to move as quickly as possible. Engineering breadth and creative problem solving are key abilities to succeed in this role. You will get to own projects from concept to production, utilizing your mechanical engineering background to build innovative animal housing that ensures great animal welfare. The role involves collaboration with animal behaviorists, neuroscientists, and engineers to determine design criteria and build systems quickly and effectively.

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.
• Resourceful, flexible and adaptable; no task is too big or too small.
• You are passionate about animals and animal welfare.
• You can build anything!

Key qualifications:

• 3+ years of mechanical engineering / construction industry experience, including owning products from concept to production.
• Strong understanding of engineering first principles.
• Experience using a 3D printer.
• Ability to work with a wide range of materials i.e. stainless steel, polycarbonate, acrylic, and more.
• Welding.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with conventional machining and rapid prototyping technologies.
• Experience with precision design and manufacturing.
• Basic understanding of software and coding recommended, but not required.

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.