Electrical Engineer, Implant Embedded Systems

Neuralink•Austin, TX

About The Position

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. Team Description: We build the electrical systems that make high-bandwidth brain–computer interfaces possible. This includes neural signal acquisition and stimulation to wireless power delivery, embedded processing, and system integration—all within devices small enough to be implanted in the human body and efficient enough to operate under strict thermal and power constraints. Our work sits at the intersection of analog, RF, digital, and biological systems. Many problems in this space do not present clean abstractions or clear failure modes. Success often depends on careful measurement, iteration, and engineering judgment across multiple interacting systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
Strong electrical engineering and physics fundamentals, with demonstrated ability to apply them under real-world constraints (noise, power, size, non-ideal interfaces)
Proven ability to independently design, bring up, debug, and verify complex PCBAs operating under tight power and size constraints, including mixed-signal circuits, sensitive sensor interfaces, and embedded compute
Experience debugging systems where issues span multiple domains (analog, digital, RF, power) and root causes are not immediately obvious
Deep familiarity with lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, VNAs) and the ability to extract meaningful insight from imperfect measurements

Nice To Haves

Experience shipping highly integrated, size- and power-constrained devices (e.g., wearables, implantables, compact wireless systems)
Experience with wireless systems and RF design tradeoffs (BLE, Wi-Fi, antenna design, coexistence)
Experience supporting hardware through manufacturing at scale, including yield, test, and failure analysis
Experience in safety-critical or regulated environments, where reliability and risk must be explicitly managed
Familiarity with mechanical integration constraints (CAD tools, packaging, stack-ups)
Experience with electromagnetic simulation and antenna validation (FEM/FDTD or equivalent)

Responsibilities

Utilize electrical engineering fundamentals and best system design practices to deliver high-performant, reliable, and manufacturable extremely size-constraint systems
Contribute to all phases of system and board design, from system definition to part selection, schematic design, layout, bring up, and design verification
Help conduct R&D investigations and experiments to demonstrate feasibility of new technology for the implant and the charger
Work cross functionally to ensure successful systems integration
Contribute to system improvements that decrease latency and increase battery life, reliability, and safety
Design and deploy systems for implant-charger hardware in the loop testing, and manufacturing line quality control

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
Paid holidays
Commuter benefits
Meals provided
Equity (RSUs)
401(k) plan
Parental leave
Flexible time off