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Security Engineer

Neuralink· Software
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Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (South San Francisco, CA)$123k - $230kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Security Engineer role focusing on IT security operations and product security for Neuralink, spanning firmware, cloud services, and clinical/medical devices. Embedded with software teams to threat model, test, detect, and harden systems across endpoints, networks, cloud, and identity.

Responsibilities

  • Run and improve security operations: triage and investigate alerts across endpoint, identity, network, email, and cloud, and lead incident response from detection through root cause and remediation.
  • Build and tune detections and response automation (SIEM, EDR, SOAR), and write tooling that eliminates manual security work and scales coverage as the company grows.
  • Partner with IT to harden corporate security infrastructure: SSO/MFA and identity lifecycle, endpoint management, email security, and vulnerability management.
  • Perform threat modeling and secure design and code reviews for Neuralink products — implant firmware, surgical robotics, BCI, infrastructure, ASIC, clinical and consumer-facing applications, and cloud backends.
  • Close security holes in Neuralink products by writing code, and collaborating with teams to get fixes merged.
  • Find vulnerabilities before attackers do: run internal security assessments and penetration tests, triage external vulnerability reports, and drive remediation with owning teams.
  • Establish and improve security standards, incident response runbooks, and secure development practices, partnering cross-functionally with software, infrastructure, IT, and compliance teams.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience in security engineering, security operations, or product/application security — or evidence of exceptional ability in lieu of traditional experience or qualifications.
  • Strong technical fundamentals: operating system internals (Linux, macOS, Windows), networking, and authentication/authorization.
  • Experience detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents.
  • An attacker’s mindset paired with a builder’s bias: you find problems and then fix them, independently and end-to-end.
  • Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and sound judgment under pressure.

Skills

Required:Security operationsDetections engineeringThreat modeling
Nice to have:Code security

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) *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded*
  • 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 Sep 30, 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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