Electrical Engineer, Robotics

Team Description: 

The robotics and surgery engineering team is looking for electrical engineers who want to design the future of operating rooms. Our team is responsible for all electrical engineering aspects of a Neuralink surgery which includes working on our surgical robotics, supporting operating room equipment, and custom consumables manufacturing.

The core device you will work on is the robot system that performs the implantation of the Neuralink implant. Major subsystems include a 9-DOF robot for micron-precise electrode implantation, embedded cameras, optical coherence tomography surface estimation, fail-safe power distribution, 10G copper and optical networking, and safety systems such as estops, interlocks, and collision avoidance hardware. 

We also design the hardware to produce consumables such as our electropolished needles and laser machined needle cartridges. Because we manufacture a large percentage of our own hardware, bring up testing, hardware acceptance tester designs, and manufacturing are also core activities of our team.

Job Responsibilities and Description: 

As an electrical engineer on the surgery and robotics team your objective is to help design a robot that can safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively implant 10’s of thousands of patients per year. To do this you will be expected to design, qualify, and transition to production a variety of custom printed circuit board electronics and integrated compute systems. This autonomy comes with the opportunity to execute large projects such as rearchitecting the motion axes and drives in our existing robot, or proposing entirely novel architectures such as new image capture pipelines, telemetry systems, networking architectures, and novel patient sensors/tools. 

Key Qualifications:

• A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, or other related ABET accredited degrees, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of industry experience designing and building printed circuit boards including initial trade studies, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout and transitioning a product to production 
• Advanced circuit board design experience with either microcontrollers or FPGAs
• Electronics design experience with UART, I2C, SPI peripherals
• PCBA bring up: test plan creation and execution and test equipment automation

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Practical electronics design knowledge of designing for controlled radiated emissions and ESD robustness
• Real-time industrial Ethernet systems (e.g. EtherCat)
• Have designed electronics for critical systems in fields such as aerospace, automotive, military, or medical devices
• Competency in one of the following software languages: C++, Javascript, Python, or C
• Experience with manufacturing acceptance test systems for circuit boards and circuit board assemblies