Robotics Test Engineer: Brain-Computer Interfaces

Neuralink; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

Meals provided

Equity (RSUs)

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Neuralink is building a next-generation surgical robot to install hundreds of tiny threads into the brain for brain-computer communication. You will own building out the robot test fleet, breaking robots into testable components, and automating accelerated life testing to ship capabilities safely.

The role requires hands-on robotics work, Python automation, and hardware interface experience. You’ll work with Sim and HIL teams to ensure models match reality, while maintaining strong repeatability

Qualifications

• Hands-on robotics experience.
• Enough Python to automate tests and analyze results, and a basic understanding of Rust.
• Comfortable reading schematics, building instrumented fixtures, and using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and data acquisition systems.

Responsibilities

• Bring up, instrument, and run robots and component test rigs.
• Hunt failures across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and software.
• Automate routine robot V&V, test setup, execution, recovery, and results.
• Design and build fixtures, sensing, and logging, with safe operating procedures and fast turnaround.
• Work with Sim and HIL engineers to make the models and tests match reality.
• Turn real failures into repeatable regression tests so we stop burning hardware time on known bugs.
• One day you’ll be chasing a failure that happened once, the next you’ll be building systems that run the same way every time.

Tools

Ethernet

SPI

I²C

UART

EtherCAT

Job description

Neuralink is building a next-generation surgical robot to install hundreds of tiny threads into the brain for brain-computer communication. You will own building out the robot test fleet, breaking robots into testable components, and automating accelerated life testing to ship capabilities safely.

The role requires hands-on robotics work, Python automation, and hardware interface experience. You’ll work with Sim and HIL teams to ensure models match reality, while maintaining strong repeatability