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Robotics Engineer

Neuralink· Software
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Hybrid (Austin, TX; South San Francisco, CA)$151k - $281kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Robotics Engineer at Neuralink developing and maintaining the robot test fleet for brain surgery devices, building test rigs, automating verification and validation, and turning failures into repeatable regression tests to enable safe, rapid deployment of new capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Bring up, instrument, and run robots and component test rigs.
  • Hunt failures across mechanics, electronics, firmware, and software.
  • Automate routine robot V&V, test setup, execution, recovery, and results.
  • Design and build fixtures, sensing, and logging, with safe operating procedures and fast turnaround.
  • Work with Sim and HIL engineers to make the models and tests match reality.
  • Turn real failures into repeatable regression tests so we stop burning hardware time on known bugs.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on robotics experience. You’ve made a robot work, broken it, and made it work again.
  • Enough Python to automate tests and analyze results, and a basic understanding of Rust.
  • Hands-on experience with motor drives, encoders, sensors, and hardware interfaces such as Ethernet, SPI, I²C, UART, or EtherCAT.
  • Comfortable reading schematics, building instrumented fixtures, and using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and data acquisition systems to diagnose failures.
  • High agency on hardware, comfortable with noise, intermittent faults, and failures that resist reproduction.
  • Discipline about repeatability, traceability, and recording what actually happened.
  • Judgment to know when a robot is ready, and the diligence to bring the evidence to back it up.
  • Effective at using AI agents to build tooling, analyze data and automate failure investigations.
  • Required: Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, etc.) or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required:Robotics hardware troubleshootingPython for test automationHardware interfaces
Nice to have:Rust

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
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible time off
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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