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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 end to end surgical robot simulation. Perform surgery and run tests on the simulated robot. Reproduce faults, and automate verification. Your simulation will enable test & verification to run on every commit.\nWhat you’ll do\nBuild the full robot sim: dynamics, sensors, actuators, and product-stack interfaces.\nTest the real robot software and firmware against simulated hardware.\nWrite automated sim tests: scenarios, regressions, fault injection, and coverage.\nMake runs deterministic, measurable, and cheap enough to run in CI.\nReproduce hardware failures in sim to accelerate our test timelines.\nThe success of the project is on you. You talk to users, get feedback, and iterate fast.\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. Bazel experience is a plus.\nReal robotics / physics sim experience (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or equivalent).\nExperience with async and concurrent systems, hardware interfaces, RPC, and telemetry.\nExperience building automated integration tests and debugging failures across software and firmware. \nEffective at using AI agents to accelerate work while maintaining quality.\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. 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