Neuralink
Security Engineer
$123K–$230K
Austin, Texas, United States +3 · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States
South San Francisco, California, United States
Austin - ATX1
South San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
About the job
Protects Neuralink’s corporate systems and products by operating security defenses, responding to incidents, and finding and fixing vulnerabilities across software and connected systems.
What you'll do
- Investigate alerts and lead incident response; build detections, response automation, and security tooling.
- Harden corporate infrastructure and conduct threat modeling, secure reviews, security assessments, and penetration tests for products.
- Write and coordinate security fixes, and improve security standards, incident runbooks, and secure development practices.
What they ask for
- 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 fundamentals in operating system internals (Linux, macOS, Windows), networking, and authentication/authorization.
- Experience detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents.
- Ability to identify and fix problems independently, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and exercise sound judgment under pressure.
Nice to have
- Product security depth, cloud/Kubernetes/containers/infrastructure-as-code security, or embedded, firmware, or hardware security experience.
- Experience in regulated environments, detection engineering or security automation, public security research, relevant certifications, or mentoring and owning security processes.
Pay
$123,000 — $230,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Linux, macOS, Windows, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, AWS, Kubernetes
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