Job brief: Machine Learning Engineer

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• Listed on Neuralink's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (5 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens boards.greenhouse.io, the address Neuralink's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $129,000 to $331,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Austin, Texas, United States; South San Francisco, California, United States · Austin - ATX1 · South San Francisco - SSF
• Posted: 2023-06-29 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Not stated. The posting does not state a level or years of experience.

Must have

• Required: Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
• Helpful (not required)
• Note: No neuroscience background is required. We value simple solutions built from first principles, and some of our best decoding work has come from people who have zero experien…

Conditions

• Experience in small-data or heavy-distribution-shift regimes

Main duties

• Train on >50,000 hours of neural data from clinical trial participants
• Train models on neural spike data across sessions and participants so a new user’s decode works out of the box, and stays working through weeks of drift with…
• Design online adaptation that keeps the closed loop stable while both the model and the user are learning
• Build the pre-training and post-training stack for voice synthesis: self-supervised representation learning on neural recordings, supervised fine-tuning on p…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Austin, TX: $174k a year (93 listings, 14 employers). This listing is 32% higher.
• Across Neuralink's 80 open listings, 78% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Neuralink hires

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