Team Description:

Neuralink's Clinical Software Engineering Team designs, builds, and scales services and systems to support participants for Neuralink’s clinical trials. The team’s portfolio includes the Patient Registry, which allows candidates to apply to Neuralink’s clinical trials, and the Clinical Admin Portal, which helps Neuralink’s internal team automate the application process, allowing for a better applicant experience. Our team must meet and exceed stringent accessibility, compliance, scalability, security, and usability requirements to facilitate a seamless user experience.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

Clinical Software Engineers are phenomenal product engineers who build world-class web and mobile experiences for our users. We are looking for engineers who are obsessed with creating an excellent product, both for external users and internal teams. Fast iteration is expected, and engineers who build things quickly, talk to users, and iterate will succeed on this team. As a Clinical Software Engineer, you will be expected to:

• Develop full-stack applications that directly support Neuralink’s groundbreaking clinical trials, shaping the future of brain-machine interfaces
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, user-focused solutions, iterating quickly to meet evolving needs
• Deliver high-performance, secure, and scalable software, optimizing systems to ensure reliability and efficiency
• Embrace rapid iteration and on-call responsibilities, tackling challenges with agility and a proactive mindset

Required Qualifications: 

• Experience leading the delivery of full-stack software that has actively been used with a quantifiable impact
• Strong full-stack application development skills
• Proficiency in building responsive web applications
• An ability to design comprehensive product experiences, while accounting for accessibility, compliance, legal, and scalability requirements
• Comfortable working with a sense of urgency, collaborating with stakeholders across departments, and communicating directly with users to understand their requirements and workflows
• Insatiable curiosity and drive to build the best user experience for everyone, regardless of their accessibility needs
• Proficient with SQL databases such as Postgres and MySQL
• Able to translate product needs into efficient schemas and queries
• A strong sense of ownership to join the on-call rotation supporting these systems, but the wisdom to build systems that rarely page

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Familiarity with modern web frameworks and libraries for building responsive web applications with quick iteration cycles
• Expertise in building scalable backends with a modern server-side language, e.g. Typescript, Ruby, Rust, Golang, etc.
• Experience building systems that meet and exceed HIPAA compliance requirements
• Experience with computer, network, or cloud security
• Comfort in building developer productivity tooling and deployment pipelines to cloud environments
• Confidence to ask for help and feedback from colleagues across many disciplines, with the skill set to deliver on a shared vision