Software Engineer - HIL
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What you need
- Strong Rust and Python skills for test tooling
- Experience with HIL, test rigs, system-level verification on robots/vehicles
- Debugging async, concurrent systems, RPC, telemetry, timing failures
- Building automated test pipelines (Bazel a plus)
- Effective use of AI agents while maintaining quality
What you'll do
- Build and maintain robot HIL with production hardware/software
- Write automated HIL tests for integration, timing, faults, bring-up
- Define pass/fail, coverage, acceptance criteria
- Integrate SIL, HIL, hardware acceptance into CI pipeline
- Own release-gating tests, reproduce failures, close coverage gaps
About Neuralink:
We are creating devices that enable a bi-directional interface with the brain. These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed, restore sight to the blind, and revolutionize how humans interact with their digital world.
The Role
Neuralink’s next generation surgical robot will perform brain surgery at scale, installing hundreds of tiny threads into the brain to enable brain computer communication.
You will own the robot’s Hardware In the Loop (HIL) test system. Exercise the production surgical robot, controllers and firmware against controlled inputs, reproduce faults, and automate verification. Your HIL will enable unattended test & verification to run day and night. Your work will help deliver reliable surgical robots at scale, bringing Neuralink to more people.
What you’ll do
- Build and maintain robot HIL — real hardware running production software and firmware.
- Write automated HIL tests for integration, timing, faults, and bring-up.
- Define pass/fail, coverage, and acceptance criteria.
- Wire software-in-the-loop tests, HIL tests, and hardware acceptance into one CI pipeline with logs, traces, and reproducible results.
- Own release-gating tests. When a failure escapes sim or HIL, you reproduce it and close the coverage gap.
What we’re looking for
- Strong Rust skills; Python for test tooling and analysis. Comfortable close to drivers, firmware, and buses.
- Experience with HIL, test rigs, or system-level verification on robots, vehicles, or similar hardware.
- Experience debugging async and concurrent systems, RPC, telemetry, and timing failures across software and firmware.
- Experience building automated test pipelines. Bazel experience is a plus.
- Effective at using AI agents to accelerate work while maintaining quality.
- Obsession with repeatability, edge cases, and traceability.
Expected Compensation:
The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the following range. Your actual base pay will be determined by your job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We also believe in aligning our employees’ success with the company's long-term growth. As such, in addition to base salary, Neuralink offers equity compensation (in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSU)) for all full-time employees.
What We Offer:
Full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.
- An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields
- 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) *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- 401(k) plan *Interns initially excluded until they work 1,000 hours
- Parental leave *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- Flexible time off *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
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About Neuralink
Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-computer interfaces to connect humans and computers. Their implantable device, the N1, reads neural signals to enable people with paralysis to control digital devices with their thoughts.
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