Software Engineer, CI/CD

Neuralink; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Neuralink is looking for a Software Engineer specializing in CI/CD to integrate closely with various teams. This role involves designing and scaling the CI/CD platform for delivering products across multiple verticals such as Brain Implant and Surgical Robotics. Key qualifications include deep experience with Bazel, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI.

The ideal candidate will have a solid background in UNIX systems and familiarity with Nix for reproducible environments. This position is key to reducing developer cycle times and improving pipeline reliability.

Qualifications

• Deep experience operating Bazel, or similar hermetic build systems.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes.
• Production experience with GitLab CI including pipeline architecture and integrations.
• Expertise in operating UNIX systems, including Linux and Mac.
• Familiarity with Nix for reproducible environments.

Responsibilities

• Integrate with teams across the company for deployment and custom tooling.
• Design and scale CI/CD platform for safe and quick shipping.
• Own and maintain software/firmware build tooling at scale.
• Operate and scale a runner fleet across multiple hardware platforms.
• Maintain reproducible build environments with Nix.
• Instrument CI health using Prometheus and Grafana.

Skills

Bazel

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

UNIX systems

Nix

Rust

Python

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

Requirements

• Deep experience operating Bazel, or similar hermetic build systems
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes
• Production experience with GitLab CI (or comparable CI platform), including pipeline architecture, runner fleet management, and custom executor integrations
• Expertise in operating UNIX systems, including Linux and Mac
• Familiarity with Nix for reproducible environments, or equivalent experience ensuring hermetic, cacheable builds
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• (Desirable) Familiarity with hardware in the loop testing setups
• (Desirable) Experience working with build system and CI tooling in a monorepo context

What the job involves

• As a Software Engineer, CICD you will integrate tightly with teams across the company, and span all layers of the work environment stack, from deployment of physical hardware on the manufacturing line, to custom tooling to stream neural recordings from implants
• Design and scale the CI/CD platform that enables engineering teams to ship safely and quickly across verticals including, but not limited to, Brain Implant, Surgical Robot, BCI App, Clinical, Full-stack services and infrastructure
• Own the software/firmware build tooling at scale. This includes remote caching, remote execution, target identification and selection, etc
• Operate and scale a runner fleet spanning on-prem and cloud clusters, cover multiple hardware platforms including Mac, Linux, Embedded devices and Hardware-in-the-loop fixtures
• Maintain reproducible build and CI environments with Nix
• Instrument CI health with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and automated alerting to maintain high signal-to-noise on pipeline reliability
• Reduce developer cycle time through pre-commit tooling, caching strategies, test sharding, and build graph optimization
• Tech Stack: Rust, Python, Terraform, Bazel, Nix, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, AWS, Darwin, Ubuntu and Fedora