Job brief: IT Security & Identity 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 (2 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• 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: $99,000 to $185,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Austin, Texas, United States · Austin - ATX1
• Posted: 2026-09-25

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

Level: Senior. The posting asks for 5+ years of experience.

Must have

• Design and operate strong authentication: phishing-resistant MFA (FIDO2/WebAuthn, passkeys, hardware tokens), certificate-based authentication (X.509, 802.1x), and device-trust co…
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or another STEM discipline, or 5+ years of professional experience in enterprise IT security engineering in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience securing corporate IT environments (identity/MFA, endpoint security, logging and detection, vulnerability management, email or file services).
• Certificate-based authentication and PKI operations: TLS, X.509, 802.1x, internal CA management.

Conditions

• This is a build-and-operate role: you will design controls, implement them in Terraform through GitLab, and then run them in production, including on-call.
• Lead or support detection, triage, and incident response for the corporate IT environment; participate in the IT on-call rotation.

Main duties

• Design, deploy, and operate identity and access management across Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra, and integrated SaaS applications;
• own SSO federation (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0) and SCIM provisioning for business-critical tools.
• Manage identity infrastructure and access policy as code using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD;
• Drive identity lifecycle automation from onboarding through offboarding, including role-based access control (RBAC), attribute-driven group membership, just-…
• Design and operate strong authentication: phishing-resistant MFA (FIDO2/WebAuthn, passkeys, hardware tokens), certificate-based authentication (X.509, 802.1x…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Austin, TX: $174k a year (129 listings, 14 employers). This listing is 19% lower.
• Across Neuralink's 81 open listings, 79% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Neuralink hires

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