Software Engineer, Clinical

Team Description: 

Neuralink's Clinical Engineering team designs, builds, and scales services and systems to find and support our first participant and beyond. Their technical leadership drives the Patient Registry, which allows applicants to share details about their diagnoses and give consent to request and process their medical records. The team also delivers mission-critical internal tools leveraged by our Clinical team and medical staff for reviewing and communicating with our users. This team must meet and exceed stringent accessibility, compliance, scalability, security, and usability requirements to facilitate a seamless user experience.

Job Responsibilities and Description: 

Clinical Software Engineers are phenomenal product engineers, and build world class web & mobile experiences for our users. Engineers who love identifying product gaps and rough edges will excel as they continue to refine our approach to build the most efficient systems. While each team member typically has a particular skillset, they can contribute to our web frontend and backend as needed. The team has significant ownership and autonomy to determine the best product vision, then identifies and leverages the best technical frameworks and dependencies to ship quickly and securely.

Key Qualifications: 

• Strong full-stack application development skills.
• Proficient with Typescript and React (or similar framework) for building responsive web applications.
• Experience creating and maintaining server applications written in Python and/or Node.js.
• 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.
• Willingness 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 building scalable backends with  another modern server side language, e.g. Ruby, Rust, Golang, etc.
• Experience building systems that meet and exceed HIPAA compliance requirements.
• Experience with computer, network, or cloud security.
• Comfortable building developer productivity tooling and deployment pipelines to cloud environments.
• Thrive in a very fast-paced environment, delivering features quickly and incrementally to provide the best possible user experience.
• The confidence to ask for help and feedback from colleagues across many disciplines, with the skillset to deliver on a shared vision.

Last updated on Sep 26, 2023