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Hardware/ Software Co-Design Engineer

Neuralink· Brain Interfaces Hardware
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Hybrid (Austin, TX; South San Francisco, CA)$151k - $261kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Role focused on micro-architecture and RTL implementation of digital IPs and systems for high-throughput, low-power DSPs and hardware accelerators for brain-machine interfaces; involves architecture optimization, system modeling, and silicon bring-up collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Micro-architecture design and RTL implementation of: Low-power digital signal processors; Low-power general-purpose hardware accelerators; Low-power graphics processing units; Low-power radio MAC/PHY; Low-power serial link MAC/PHY
  • Design and optimization of hardware/software interface with firmware engineers
  • Application-specific architecture optimization including: Complex system modeling for energy and performance benchmarks; Workload analysis and modeling; Energy/performance profiling and analysis; Leveraging architecture-level design trade-offs with process technology and workload type; Balancing cost and performance under manufacturing process variation
  • Collaboration on silicon bring-up tests with verification engineers

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of exceptional ability in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering
  • Experience designing and implementing embedded software in C or Rust
  • Expertise in SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python
  • Experience designing and implementing emulation models, transactors, and test environments to replicate hardware behavior
  • Experience working on complex digital systems from architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL, using industry standard tools
  • Experience in designing digital signal processing pipelines, from algorithm to RTL

Skills

Required:Embedded software developmentSystemVerilogC/C++Python

Benefits

  • An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields
  • Growth potential; we rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan
  • Paid holidays
  • Commuter benefits
  • Meals provided
  • Equity (RSUs)
  • 401(k) plan (Interns initially excluded until they work 1,000 hours)
  • Parental leave (Temporary Employees & Interns excluded)
  • Flexible time off (Temporary Employees & Interns excluded)
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Neuralink

Pioneering Brain Computer Interfaces

Creating a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.

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