Security Engineer — Product & SOC Security

Neuralink; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 123,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical insurance

RSUs equity for full-time employees

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

Neuralink is seeking a Security Engineer to defend our fleet, networks, and cloud by building detections, responding to incidents, and hardening systems. You will threat model, review, and test software from firmware to cloud services, embedded with the Software team to tackle high-impact security issues.

You will triage alerts across endpoints and identity, lead incident response, and collaborate with software, IT, and compliance teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on security engineering, security operations, or product/application security experience or evidence of exceptional ability.
• Strong fundamentals in operating systems, networking, and authentication/authorization.
• Experience detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents.
• Attacker mindset with builder's bias: identify problems and fix them end-to-end.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Run and improve security operations: triage alerts across endpoint, identity, network, email, and cloud; lead incident response end-to-end.
• Build and tune detections and response automation (SIEM/EDR/SOAR); write tooling to reduce manual work.
• Partner with IT to harden security infrastructure: SSO/MFA, identity lifecycle, endpoint management, vulnerability management.
• Perform threat modeling and secure design reviews for Neuralink products including firmware and cloud backends.
• Close security holes by writing code and coordinating fixes with teams.
• Find vulnerabilities via internal assessments and external reports; drive remediation with owning teams.
• Establish and improve security standards, incident response runbooks, and secure development practices.

Skills

Security engineering

OS internals

Incident response

Threat modeling

Communication

Cloud security (AWS)

Kubernetes/containers

Security automation

Hardware/embedded security

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Vulnerability management

Job description

Neuralink is seeking a Security Engineer to defend our fleet, networks, and cloud by building detections, responding to incidents, and hardening systems. You will threat model, review, and test software from firmware to cloud services, embedded with the Software team to tackle high-impact security issues.

You will triage alerts across endpoints and identity, lead incident response, and collaborate with software, IT, and compliance teams.