Company Description:
We are creating the future of brain-computer interfaces: building devices now that have the potential to help people with paralysis regain mobility and independence and invent new technologies that could expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
You will be part of the Quality Control team responsible for running multiple tests in-house, performing test method validations, finalizing reports, and supporting R&D activities. The QC Team is a dedicated group of highly skilled professionals responsible for ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and compliance of test methods used in the quality control process. With expertise in various analytical techniques, such as chemical characterization, microbiological testing, and biocompatibility evaluations, this team is crucial in maintaining product quality and safety.
The Associate Chemist role will work with teams across the Neuralink organization to analyze the chemical and biological characteristics of manufacturing processes and finished devices. This will include various levels of product testing during R&D and release to obtain data that may be required for product approvals. Additionally, this data may be used to confirm patient safety of our products by applicable global regulations, regulatory guidelines, or voluntary consensus standards. Daily responsibilities may involve drafting internal procedures and test protocols, sample preparation, laboratory testing, method development, inventory management, and other miscellaneous laboratory tasks. The primary goal will be to assist in medical device chemical and biological characterization to support patient safety and regulatory approval.
Pay Transparency: The following details are for Texas individuals only:
Texas Pay Transparency
$70,000—$107,300 USD
For Full-Time Employees, your compensation package will include two major components: salary and equity. Guidance on salary for this role will be determined according to the level at which you enter the organization, with the ability to gain more over time as you contribute. In addition, Full-Time Employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.
What We Offer:
- 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 + 401(k) plan *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- Parental leave *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- Flexible time off *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates won’t apply if they don’t meet every listed qualification. Neuralink values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don’t check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!
Neuralink provides equal opportunity in all of our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, training and social, and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.
If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the interview process, please let us know. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in those processes. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
