Software Engineer, ASIC
Neuralink•Austin, TX
•Hybrid
About The Position
Neuralink is developing brain-computer interface devices to restore movement to the paralyzed, sight to the blind, and revolutionize human interaction with the digital world. The Infrastructure Team provides the essential foundation for the company's operations, ensuring safety, robustness, and rapid progress. This team manages a hybrid environment of cloud-based and on-prem systems, serving a diverse user base from highly technical engineers to non-technical scientists and doctors, all of whom rely on dependable systems, resilient networking, and reliable software.
Requirements
- Experience administering EDA compute environments and toolchains (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens/Mentor)
- Working knowledge of FlexLM license server administration and capacity management.
- Working knowledge of compiled languages, ideally Rust, Go, or C/C++.
- Experience with high-performance Linux storage: NFS, ZFS, Ceph, iSCSI, or similar.
- Systems administration experience on RHEL and Ubuntu, kernel tuning for compute workloads
- Familiarity with distributed compute frameworks (Ray, Slurm, LSF, or similar)
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle management at datacenter scale
- Familiarity with embedded cross-compilation toolchains and build systems (ARM, Bazel, Nix)
- Experience with multi-cloud deployments and hybrid on-prem/cloud architectures
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable EDA compute infrastructure for analog and digital chip design
- Develop distributed simulation clusters to accelerate circuit verification at scale
- Manage and optimize license infrastructure across multiple EDA vendors
- Architect high-performance and robust shared storage for terabyte-scale design data
- Develop build-system infrastructure and tooling for firmware targeting custom ASICs
- Automate bare-metal server provisioning and lifecycle management for EDA compute fleets
- Enhance developer experience for IC design and firmware engineers through monitoring, self-service tooling, and robust automation
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
