Join Neuralink as a Robotics Engineer to build and test next-generation surgical robots for brain surgery.
Posted by employer 3 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build out the robot test fleet
- Perform surgeries on brain proxies
- Automate accelerated life testing
- Hunt failures across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and software
- Design and build fixtures, sensing, and logging
Must have
- Hands-on robotics experience
- Enough Python to automate tests and analyze results
- Basic understanding of Rust
- Hands-on experience with motor drives, encoders, sensors, and hardware interfaces
- Comfortable reading schematics and using diagnostic tools
AI in the day-to-day
Effective at using AI agents to build tooling, analyze data and automate failure investigations.
Not disclosed in this posting: seniority, years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Robotics Engineer at Neuralink focuses on developing and testing surgical robots designed for brain surgery, ensuring they operate reliably and safely. Key skills include hands-on robotics experience, proficiency in Python and basic Rust, and familiarity with hardware interfaces and diagnostics tools. This position is suitable for engineers at various levels who demonstrate exceptional problem-solving abilities and a strong drive for success. The team values both junior and senior talent, emphasizing the importance of practical experience and a disciplined approach to testing.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 27, 2026. Last confirmed on Neuralink's careers page September 27, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$126,555).
- Starts above 70% of 653 comparable other roles in United States that list Python we track (median $130,000 across 93 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 11.7% of 10031 comparable other roles in United States; Software appears in 0.1% of 10031 comparable other roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Neuralink lists $151,000–$281,000 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Electronics, EtherCAT, Ethernet, Firmware, I²C, Python.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Robotics Engineer role at Neuralink.
From the original posting
About Neuralink:
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’ll own building out the robot test fleet. Break robots into testable components, build rigs that reproduce operating conditions, perform surgeries on brain proxies, and automate accelerated life testing (ALT). Your fleet gives us the evidence to ship new capabilities regularly and safely. When the robot misbehaves, you’re in the lab figuring it out.
What you’ll do
- Bring up, instrument, and run robots and component test rigs.
- Hunt failures across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and software.
- Automate routine robot V&V, test setup, execution, recovery, and results.
- Design and build fixtures, sensing, and logging, with safe operating procedures and fast turnaround.
- Work with Sim and HIL engineers to make the models and tests match reality.
- Turn real failures into repeatable regression tests so we stop burning hardware time on known bugs.
One day you’ll be chasing a failure that happened once, the next you’ll be building systems that run the same way every time. We need someone who can do both and knows which one the day calls for.
Note: The team is hiring engineers at all levels, both junior and senior. What matters most is evidence of exceptional abilities and a drive to succeed.
What we’re looking for
- Hands-on robotics experience. You’ve made a robot work, broken it, and made it work again.
- Enough Python to automate tests and analyze results, and a basic understanding of Rust.
- Hands-on experience with motor drives, encoders, sensors, and hardware interfaces such as Ethernet, SPI, I²C, UART, or EtherCAT.
- Comfortable reading schematics, building instrumented fixtures, and using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and data acquisition systems to diagnose failures.
- High agency on hardware, comfortable with noise, intermittent faults, and failures that resist reproduction.
- Discipline about repeatability, traceability, and recording what actually happened.
- Judgment to know when a robot is ready, and the diligence to bring the evidence to back it up.
- Effective at using AI agents to build tooling, analyze data and automate failure investigations.
Expected Compensation:
What We Offer:
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