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Blackrock Neurotech makes the implanted electrode arrays and signal processing hardware behind much of the published brain-computer interface research. Founded in 2008 in Salt Lake City, its systems have been used by participants for over a decade of continuous recording. The company works on decoders that restore movement, speech and touch.

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Blog 3 months ago
Long-term safety and efficacy of intracortical microstimulation in humans
Abstract: Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of somatosensory cortex can restore a sense of touch to people with spinal cord injury. In this early feasibility clinical trial (NCT01894802), we evaluated the safety, efficacy, and longevity of ICMS becaus
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Blog 4 months ago
Casey Harrell BCI Pioneer, Father, Environmental Advocate
Meet Casey Casey Harrell spent his career using his voice. For more than two decades he worked as an environmental campaigner, the kind who got large companies and larger banks to change how they operate. Then ALS began to take that voice away. By mid-202
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Blog 6 months ago
IEEE Spectrum What It's Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant
By Ed Gent IEEE Spectrum "Scott Imbrie vividly remembers the first time he used a robotic arm to shake someone's hand and felt the robotic limb as if it were his own. "I still get goosebumps when I think about that initial contact," he says. "It's just un
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Blog 6 months ago
Wired - Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
By: Emily MullinGalen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful. "GALEN BUCKWALTER DIDN'T hesitate to get a craniotomy in 2024 as part of a brain implant study at Caltech. The 69
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Blog 8 months ago
The Scientist What Will It Take to Design a Brain Implant That Lasts a Lifetime?
Momentum behind brain-computer interfaces is growing, but experts say that design innovations are needed to help them survive decades in the brain. By RJ Mackenzie When Ian Burkhart was just 19 years old, he lost the ability to move below his elbows after
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Blog 10 months ago
StoryCollider - Attitude: Stories about inner strength
Attitude is everything-and this week's storytellers prove it. Even when life throws challenges their way, they show how perspective and perseverance can make all the difference. Paralyzed but undeterred, Scott Imbrie is on a mission to regain movement. Sc
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Blog 11 months ago
Decoding Inner Speech with an End-to-End Brain-to-Text Neural Interface
Authors: Yizi Zhang, Linyang He, Chaofei Fan, Tingkai Liu, Han Yu, Trung Le, Jingyuan Li, Scott Linderman, Lea Duncker, Francis R Willett, Nima Mesgarani, Liam Paninsk Abstract: Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to restore communication for peop
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Blog 11 months ago
Transient frontopolar cortex stimulation induces prolonged disruption to counterfactual processing
Authors: Matthew Ainsworth, Juan M. Galeazzi , Carlos Pedreira, Mark G. Stokes, Mark J. Buckley Abstract: Frontopolar cortex (FPC) contains area 10, an anterior sub-region of prefrontal cortex exclusive to humans and nonhuman primates (NHPs) which is thou
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Blog 11 months ago
Hierarchical and Context-Dependent Encoding of Actions in Human Posterior Parietal and Motor Cortex
Authors: V. Bougou, J. Gamez, E. R. Rosario, C. Liu, K. Pejsa, A. Bari, R. A. Andersen Abstract: Action understanding requires internal models that link vision to motor goals. In monkeys, mirror neurons demonstrate motor resonance during observation, but
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Blog 11 months ago
Brain-like neural dynamics for behavioral control develop through reinforcement learning
Authors: Olivier Codol, Nanda H. Krishna, Guillaume Lajoie, Matthew G. Perich Abstract: During development, neural circuits are shaped continuously as we learn to control our bodies. The ultimate goal of this process is to produce neural dynamics that ena
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Blackrock Neurotech over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
65/100
Languages
Python
C++
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch
CUDA
PyTorch C++
ROCm
Cloud & platforms
Linux
CUDA Toolkit
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Full Blackrock Neurotech tech stack 13 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
5
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
22 days
faster than 50% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
20% ▲
DevOps
20% ▲
Leadership
20% ▼
Public Policy
20% ▲
Industrial Engineering
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Triton to stack Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack Sep 2026
Added ROCm to stack Sep 2026
Added PyTorch C++ to stack Sep 2026
Added PyTorch to stack Sep 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack Sep 2026
Added CUDA Toolkit to stack Sep 2026
Added CUDA to stack Sep 2026
Added C++ to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City United States
HQ
Location
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, DevOps, Leadership
Address: 630 Komas Drive, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
seen since Feb 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

≈ $128k – $241k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Salt Lake City
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Time Series Forecasting
CUDA
Triton
ROCm
DevOps
Linux
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≈ $86k – $174k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Salt Lake City
Python
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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≈ $156k – $293k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Salt Lake City
Python
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Linux
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$5.6M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
7
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2023 $1.5M Details
Grant 2023 $496k Details
Grant 2021 $1.5M Details
Grant 2020 $1.5M Details
Grant 2020 $221k Details
Grant 2019 $222k Details
Grant 2016 $149k Details