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.

Team Description:

The Brain Interfaces Soc Department delivers chip architecture and silicon implementation of neural recording and stimulation system-on-chip (SoC) for high-bandwidth brain-machine interface applications. We have crafted a team of exceptional engineers whose mission is to push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the future.

Job Description & Responsibilities:

Our Digital IC Design Engineer will be responsible for delivering micro-architecture and register-transfer level (RTL) implementation of digital IPs and systems with a focus in high-throughput low-power digital signal processor (DSP) and general-purpose hardware accelerators towards realizing state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces. Relevant product development experience in micro-architecture design for low-power processors, on-chip bus and network interfaces, audio/video compression processors, AI/ML accelerators, and communication PHY/MAC will be preferred.

Micro-architecture design and RTL implementation of:

Low-power digital signal processors
Low-power general-purpose hardware accelerators
Low-power graphics processing units
Low-power radio MAC/PHY
Low-power serial link MAC/PHY

Design and optimization of hardware/software interface with firmware engineers
Application-specific architecture optimization including:

Complex system modeling for energy and performance benchmarks
Workload analysis and modeling
Energy/performance profiling and analysis
Leveraging architecture-level design trade-offs with process technology and workload type
Balancing cost and performance under manufacturing process variation

Collaboration on silicon bring-up tests with verification engineers

Required Qualifications:

Evidence of exceptional ability in electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering
5+ years of experience in digital design
Expertise in SystemVerilog, C/C++, Python
Experience working on complex digital systems from architecture, microarchitecture, and RTL, using industry standard tools
Experience in designing digital signal processing pipelines, from algorithm to RTL

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in architecture optimization with process technology customization
Experience in the verification of complex digital systems, using industry standard tools
Experience in the physical design of complex digital systems, using industry standard tools
Experience testing and debugging digital system-on-a-chips
Functional modeling experience and logic verification with SystemVerilog, SystemC/C++
Experience automating tool flows
Experience with embedded design
Experience in processor instruction set architecture design
Experience in compiler back-end design and customization

Pay Transparency: The following details are for Texas individuals only:

Texas Pay Transparency

$101,300—$210,400 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

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