Senior Electrical Engineer

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.

About you: 

• You deliver. You may enjoy thoughtful conversations about problems and perfecting designs, but ultimately you know that what matters is delivering a manufacturable solution that meets your spec.
• You find open-ended challenges exciting and enjoy discovering and defining problems as much as solving them.
• You are a cross-disciplinary team member. You are excited to work with and learn from neuroscientists and software, mechanical, electrical, materials, and biological engineering. You are comfortable communicating across teams.
• Resourceful, flexible, and adaptable; no task is too big or too small.

Key Qualifications:

• A degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and building electronics including concept design, schematic capture, PCB layout, packaging, integration, design for test, design for manufacturability, and transitioning a product to production.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• IEC 60601 and 80601 certifications of medical electrical equipment and robotically assisted surgical equipment
• Real-time industrial Ethernet systems (e.g. EtherCat)
• Designing or integrating systems with off-the-shelf compute hardware. Examples include MIPI or PCIe embedded camera hardware integration, networking PHY/MAC hardware design, or PCIe expansion cards.
• Competency in one of the following software languages: C++, Javascript, Python, or C.
• Demonstrable experience in developing electronics for critical systems in fields such as medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or military.
• Designing for radiated emissions compliance or robustness to ESD.