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These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed, restore sight to the blind, and revolutionize how humans interact with their digital world.\nThe Role\nNeuralink’s next generation surgical robot will perform brain surgery at scale, installing hundreds of tiny threads into the brain to enable brain computer communication.\nYou 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.\nWhat you’ll do\nBuild and maintain robot HIL - real hardware running production software and firmware.\nWrite automated HIL tests for integration, timing, faults, and bring-up.\nDefine pass/fail, coverage, and acceptance criteria.\nWire software-in-the-loop tests, HIL tests, and hardware acceptance into one CI pipeline with logs, traces, and reproducible results.\nOwn release-gating tests. When a failure escapes sim or HIL, you reproduce it and close the coverage gap.\nNote: 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.\nWhat we’re looking for\nStrong Rust skills; Python for test tooling and analysis. Comfortable close to drivers, firmware, and buses.\nExperience with HIL, test rigs, or system-level verification on robots, vehicles, or similar hardware.\nExperience debugging async and concurrent systems, RPC, telemetry, and timing failures across software and firmware.\nExperience building automated test pipelines. Bazel experience is a plus.\nEffective at using AI agents to accelerate work while maintaining quality.\nObsession with repeatability, edge cases, and traceability.\n\nExpected Compensation:\nThe 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.\nBase Salary Range:\n$151,000—$281,000 USD\nWhat We Offer:\nFull-time employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.\nAn opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields\nGrowth potential; we rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact\nExcellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan\nPaid holidays\nCommuter benefits\nMeals provided\nEquity (RSUs) *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded\n401(k) plan *Interns initially excluded until they work 1,000 hours\nParental leave *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded\nFlexible time off *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded","description_format":"text","description_chars":3128,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible time off","Parental leave","Restricted stock units","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Medical & Healthcare Robotics","Neurotech & Neuromodulation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T21:50:24Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":168,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":281000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/neuralink-software-engineer-hil","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/neuralink-software-engineer-hil.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T00:52:23Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":411,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4589,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}