Neuralink
Electrical Engineer Intern, Robotics and Surgery Engineering
South San Francisco, California, United States · Internship · Posted Jun 13, 2025
About the job
Designs, verifies, tests, and helps transition custom electrical systems for Neuralink’s surgical robot into production.
What you'll do
- Design circuit boards, including component selection, schematics, layout, and bring-up.
- Develop and test custom electronics such as motor drivers, camera hardware and firmware, and FPGA-based optical coherence tomography data acquisition systems.
- Support debugging, manufacturing, validation, and testing, including hardware-in-the-loop and life-cycle testing.
What they ask for
- Demonstrable experience developing circuits or products used by real customers; student design team work and personal projects may qualify.
- Circuit board design experience with advanced knowledge in at least one niche, such as HDI, high-speed digital, high power, RF, or atypical materials or constructions.
- Experience with sensors, power management, and signal/power integrity.
- Design experience with common communication protocols (SPI, UART, I2C, etc.) and competence with common lab equipment.
Nice to have
- A portfolio of completed projects.
- Experience developing electronics for critical systems, or embedded firmware or Linux software development.
Pay
$35/hr USD (hourly rate)
Tools
SPI, UART, I2C, C/C++, Rust, Python, Linux, FPGA
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