Software Engineer (HIL)

About this role

• 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