Neuralink

Biotechnology

SoftwareEngineer,ASIC

$123–216k Austin, Texas, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Software Engineer, ASIC at Neuralink. Skills: EDA compute infrastructure, custom ASICs, bare-metal server provisioning. integrate with company teams. deploy physical hardware”

Industry & Context.

Biotechnology

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

administering EDA compute environments, FlexLM license server administration, compiled languages, high-performance Linux storage, Systems administration, bare-metal provisioning, embedded cross-compilation toolchains, multi-cloud deployments, hybrid on-prem/cloud architectures

Nice to Have

Rust, Go, C/C++, NFS, ZFS, Ceph, iSCSI, RHEL, Ubuntu, Ray, Slurm, LSF, ARM, Bazel, Nix

What You'll Do.

integrate with company teams

deploy physical hardware

stream neural recordings

Build EDA compute infrastructure

Develop distributed simulation clusters

Manage license infrastructure

Architect shared storage

Develop build-system infrastructure

Automate server provisioning

Enhance developer experience

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

integrate tightly with teams across the company; work with product team

Full Job Description

About Neuralink: We are creating devices that enable a bi-directional interface with the brain. These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed, restore sight to the blind, and revolutionize how humans interact with their digital world. Team Description: The Infrastructure Team builds the foundation that enables the company to operate safely, robustly, and move at light-speed. We run a mixture of cloud-based and on-prem systems and have a user base spanning from highly technically proficient engineers to non-technical scientists and doctors; but all of them need solid systems, rugged networking, and bullet-proof software to do their jobs. Job Responsibilities and Description: As a Software Engineer, ASIC, you will integrate tightly with teams across the company, and span all layers of the work environment stack, from deployment of physical hardware on the manufacturing line, to custom tooling to stream neural recordings from implants. You will: Build and maintain scalable EDA compute infrastructure for analog and digital chip design Develop distributed simulation clusters to accelerate circuit verification at scale Manage and optimize license infrastructure across multiple EDA vendors Architect high-performance and robust shared storage for terabyte-scale design data Develop build-system infrastructure and tooling for firmware targeting custom ASICs Automate bare-metal server provisioning and lifecycle management for EDA compute fleets Enhance developer experience for IC design and firmware engineers through monitoring, self-service tooling, and robust automation Tech Stack: Rust, Python, Go Cadence Virtuoso, Cadence Spectre Terraform, Ansible, Packer, MAAS Bazel and Nix Prometheus, ClickHouse, Grafana Ray, Docker, Kubernetes AWS, OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) RHEL, Ubuntu Required Qualifications: Experience administering EDA compute environments and toolchains (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens/Mentor) Working knowledge of FlexLM license server administrat

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