Software Engineer (HIL)
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- Neuralink’s next generation surgical robot will perform brain surgery at scale, installing hundreds of tiny threads into the brain to enable brain computer communication
- You 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
- Build and maintain robot HIL — real hardware running production software and firmware
- Write automated HIL tests for integration, timing, faults, and bring-up
- Define pass/fail, coverage, and acceptance criteria
- Wire software-in-the-loop tests, HIL tests, and hardware acceptance into one CI pipeline with logs, traces, and reproducible results
- Own release-gating tests. When a failure escapes sim or HIL, you reproduce it and close the coverage gap
- Note: 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
- Effective at using AI agents to accelerate work while maintaining quality
- Strong Rust skills; Python for test tooling and analysis. Comfortable close to drivers, firmware, and buses
- Experience debugging async and concurrent systems, RPC, telemetry, and timing failures across software and firmware
- Experience with HIL, test rigs, or system-level verification on robots, vehicles, or similar hardware
- Obsession with repeatability, edge cases, and traceability
- Experience building automated test pipelines. Bazel experience is a plus