Electrical Engineer Intern
Neuralink
About the Role
As an Electrical Engineering Intern, you will own meaningful projects and make substantial contributions as an integral member of our fast-moving team. You will be expected to design, verify, and oversee the transition to production of a variety of custom electronics systems, while additionally supporting broader team efforts through debugging, manufacturing, and testing.
Key Responsibilities
- All phases of board design (part selection, schematic design, layout, and bring-up)
- Custom motor drivers, from transistor selection to control loop design
- Custom high-bandwidth, low-latency, camera hardware and firmware
- Custom FPGA based Optical Coherence Tomography data acquisition systems
- Testing hardware such as Hardware-In-The-Loop systems, validation boards, and life-cycle testing rigs
- Case studies on future system architectures including new compute platforms, redesigned actuator layouts, and deep-brain imaging systems
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Demonstrable experience developing circuits or products that have been used by real customers. Student design team work and personal projects may apply.
- Circuit board design experience demonstrating advanced knowledge in at least one niche, for example high density (HDI), high speed digital, high power, radio frequency, atypical materials or constructions, etc.
- Experience with sensors, power management, and signal/power integrity
- Design experience with common communication protocols (SPI, UART, I2C, etc.)
- Competent with common lab equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications
- A portfolio showing examples of projects you’ve completed.
- Demonstrable experience in developing electronics for critical systems in fields such as medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or military.
- Experience with firmware development for embedded systems (C/C++, Rust)
- Experience with software development for Linux systems (Python, C++, Rust)
Compensation
- California Hourly Rate: $35/hr USD