Electrical Engineer, Power Systems

Team Description:

The Surgery & Robotics Hardware Team is looking for Electrical Engineers who want to advance the future of healthcare solutions with technology. At Neuralink we recognize that increasing healthcare costs, lack of access, and insufficient numbers of neurosurgeons globally require new approaches to enable greater access to our devices. To address these challenges we design fully autonomous robotics systems, human assistive surgical tools, and design entire surgical suites in order to provide better experiences for our customers.

Our team works on our surgical robot system which aims to fully automate the implantation of the Neuralink implant. We design and integrate multi-axis robotic arms, perception systems including custom imaging hardware, optical coherence tomography tissue imaging, power electronics, and safety systems such as 3D spatial mapping/object avoidance sensors. Robotics is part of a larger system of tools we work on. For example, using pre-op MRI scans we generate patient anatomy data that we later use in surgery to register precise surgery site locations. 

In addition to research and development of modern surgical technology, we also are responsible for bringing these technologies to market. We perform full lifecycle testing for all devices we design and ultimately manufacture them for use in human surgeries. To date, our designs have served over 20 individuals, and in the coming years our designs will serve thousands of individuals who wish to use our implant technology.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

As an Electrical Engineer on the Surgery & Robot Hardware Team, you will be expected to design, verify, and oversee the transition to production of a variety of custom electronics systems with a primary emphasis on power electronics. This role offers substantial autonomy and the exciting opportunity to own creative decisions and execute on new, impactful projects such as motor drives and controls, power distribution architectures, robotics stage designs, custom camera power systems, manufacturing automation, and the firmware that enables all of these devices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
• Professional experience delivering on all phases of electronics design (requirements, part selection, schematic, layout, manufacturing, test)
• Strong demonstrated depth in Power Electronics: Experience designing custom power conversion, distribution, eFusing, and battery management systems in the low-to-medium power range (1W–2kW). Experience in all of the following is not required, but you are well aligned with this role if you have worked on several of:
• DC/DC converters (phase shifted full bridge, LLC, interleaved boost, isolated topologies)
• Motor drive inverters and control electronics
• Power distribution and protection architectures (eFusing, load switching, fault isolation)
• Battery management systems (BMS) including cell balancing, protection, and state estimation
• Thermal management, efficiency optimization, and high-reliability design for medical/robotics environments
• Have developed embedded firmware for your power systems design. Examples include control theory modeling for converters, control implementation on a microcontroller, power telemetry, battery state estimation, and power sequencing. 
• Practical electronics design knowledge including designing for EMC, ESD, thermals, safety, and packaging

Preferred Qualifications:

• A portfolio showcasing your hardware designs (especially power electronics projects)
• Demonstrable experience developing electronics for safety-critical systems such as medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or military
• Altium experience