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:
The Quality Systems Team is responsible for implementing and operating a compliant system that meets all FDA regulations and supports faster iteration for Neuralink. The goal is to have better and higher safety standards than the FDA, but to ensure innovation and rapid iteration are supported by the systems and processes built by the Quality Systems Team. The Quality Systems team at Neuralink covers the entire GxP landscape, i.e., GLP for preclinical and laboratory studies, GCP for domestic and international clinical trials, and GMP for manufacturing controls. We are a dedicated group of highly skilled professionals who challenge existing requirements with first principles and develop unique ways of solving product and process problems.
Job Description and Responsibilities:
As a Quality Systems Specialist, you will work with teams across the Neuralink organization to resolve isolated and systemic problems through NCRs and CAPAs. You’ll identify ways to trend defects and issues for broader audiences and leadership. This role involves communicating and collaborating with different teams, such as R&D, manufacturing, product, etc., to maintain document/change management and data systems and ensure regulatory compliance with applicable standards. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Acting as a subject matter expert and working cross-functionally with our various teams
- Leading the CAPAs and supporting additional CAPA owners for timely completion, adequate root cause analysis, and deploying necessary corrective and preventive actions
- Serving as the nonconformance coordinator, ensuring timely completion and compliance for preclinical, manufacturing, clinical, and process NCRs
- Building KPIs and trend data at a regular cadence as well as making data-driven decisions to reduce the occurrence of defects/NCRs across the company
- Owning document change control and document reviews, facilitating procedure updates with process owners, and improving the existing design and automating the process
- Creating a data storage system, keeping it up to date and organized, and performing regular data storage and access audits
- Leveraging operational experience to meet quality and regulatory goals and defining processes within a Quality System
- Drafting SOPs and Work Instructions and establishing training processes as applicable
- Supporting back room & front room audits
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a related field
- 1-2 years of experience in a medical device industry
- Experience and knowledge of ISO 13485 and 21 CFR 820 requirements
- Problem-solving mindset
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- High attention to detail
- Basic understanding of statistical tools and analysis of trend data
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience owning and completing multiple CAPAs
- Audit Experience
- Experience designing parts of Quality Management Systems per 21 CFR 820
Pay Transparency:
Based on California law, the following details are for California individuals only:
California base salary range:
$78,000—$140,000 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.
