Company Description:
We are creating the future of brain-computer interfaces: building devices now that have the potential to help people with paralysis regain mobility and independence and invent new technologies that could expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
Team Description:
Join the Quality Systems Team, where our mission is to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory standards by streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency through innovative process development. We are a group of industry-experienced professionals who utilize creative problem-solving to establish efficient systems for compliance. Our vision is to set internal quality standards that exceed FDA expectations. We seek a dynamic individual who thrives on continuous improvement and is passionate about implementing systems that drive compliance and optimize performance.
Job Description and Responsibilities:
The Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist will work with Neuralink's teams to ensure that the appropriate governing body regulations are followed. This includes, but is not limited to, adherence to ISO standards, Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), clinical guidelines, manufacturing protocols, and quality control practices. Responsibilities will include:
- Maintaining copies of all approved protocols
- Maintaining a master schedule of all GLP- regulated studies
- Performing pre-qualification inspections of the testing facilities as needed
- Providing general periodic status reports to management and the study director pertaining to facility, quality control, and preclinical study compliance
- Inspecting and auditing at intervals adequate to ensure the integrity of the data and verify applicable compliance
- Communicating the findings of all QA inspections to appropriate management via signed inspection reports
- Determining that no deviations from approved protocols or standard operating procedures were made without proper authorization and/or documentation
- Reviewing study protocols to ensure compliance before study initiation
- Verifying that final study reports accurately reflect the raw data, protocol, methods, and SOPs used in conducting the GLP study
- Preparing a Quality Assurance Statement to be included in final reports
- Writing and reviewing Quality Assurance SOPs
- Reviewing equipment, software, and other computer-system validations and qualifications when applicable
- Inspecting critical vendors
- Ensuring personnel training records are maintained by staff
- Conduct GLP training for staff as needed, such as for new hires or when training certifications have expired
- Serving as a point of contact and assisting with FDA inspections
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree, preferably in a science, engineering, or quality-related discipline
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in a medical device or life sciences organization
- Minimum of 1 year of experience within a regulatory environment
- Minimum of 1 year of experience with FDA regulations and requirements
- Basic computer skills and proficiency in Google Docs, Google Drive, and Gmail
- Ability to travel to/from work in multistate locations
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience auditing multiple GxP processes
- Experience with auditing quality control testing
- Strong understanding of the scientific method and engineering first principles
- Understanding within the fields of microbiology and chemistry
- Excellent organization and communication skills
- Keen eye for detail
Work Environment: Office, lab, operating room, and animal care facilities
Pay Transparency: The following details are for Texas individuals only:
Texas Pay Transparency
$70,000—$85,000 USD
For Full-Time Employees, your compensation package will include two major components: salary and equity. Guidance on salary for this role will be determined according to the level at which you enter the organization, with the ability to gain more over time as you contribute. In addition, Full-Time Employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.
What We Offer:
- An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields
- Growth potential; we rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan
- Paid holidays
- Commuter benefits
- Meals provided
- Equity + 401(k) plan *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- Parental leave *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- Flexible time off *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates won't apply if they don't meet every listed qualification. Neuralink values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!
Neuralink provides equal opportunity in all of our employment practices to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information or any other category protected by federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotion, transfer, disciplinary action, layoff, return from layoff, training and social, and recreational programs. All such employment decisions will be made without unlawfully discriminating on any prohibited basis.
If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the interview process, please let us know. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in those processes. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
What We Do
Neuralink is a team of exceptionally talented people. We are creating the future of brain-machine interfaces: building devices now that will help people with paralysis and inventing new technologies that will expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
Our goal is to build a system with at least two orders of magnitude more communication channels (electrodes) than current clinically-approved devices. This system needs to be safe, it must have fully wireless communication through the skin, and it has to be ready for patients to take home and use on their own. Our device, called the Link, will be able to record from 1024 electrodes and is designed to meet these criteria.
