Security Engineer for Brain-Computer Interfaces

Neuralink; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impact work

Benefits

Meals provided

Equity RSUs

401k

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

Neuralink in California is seeking a Security Engineer to defend our fleet, networks, and cloud by building detections, responding to incidents, and hardening systems across firmware, surgical robotics, and cloud services. You will threat model, review designs, and drive remediation with owning teams, working embedded with the Software team to uncover and fix high‑impact security problems.

The role requires hands‑on incident response, experience with SIEM/EDR/SOAR, and a builders mindset, with a

Qualifications

• Hands-on security engineering or equivalent experience.
• Strong fundamentals in OS, networking, and authentication/authorization.
• Experience detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents.
• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Run and improve security operations: triage and investigate alerts across endpoint, identity, network, email, and cloud, and lead incident response from detection through root cause and remediation.
• Build and tune detections and response automation (SIEM, EDR, SOAR), and write tooling that eliminates manual security work and scales coverage as the company grows.
• Partner with IT to harden corporate security infrastructure: SSO/MFA and identity lifecycle, endpoint management, email security, and vulnerability management.
• Perform threat modeling and secure design and code reviews for Neuralink products - implant firmware, surgical robotics, BCI, infrastructure, ASIC, clinical and consumer-facing applications, and cloud backends.
• Close security holes in Neuralink products by writing code, and collaborating with teams to get fixes merged.
• Find vulnerabilities before attackers do: run internal security assessments and penetration tests, triage external vulnerability reports, and drive remediation with owning teams.
• Establish and improve security standards, incident response runbooks, and secure development practices, partnering cross-functionally with software, infrastructure, IT, and compliance teams.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

OS fundamentals

Threat modeling

Communication

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

Neuralink in California is seeking a Security Engineer to defend our fleet, networks, and cloud by building detections, responding to incidents, and hardening systems across firmware, surgical robotics, and cloud services. You will threat model, review designs, and drive remediation with owning teams, working embedded with the Software team to uncover and fix high‑impact security problems.

The role requires hands‑on incident response, experience with SIEM/EDR/SOAR, and a builders mindset, with a