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 our 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 with interdisciplinary skillsets who thrives on continuous improvement and is passionate about implementing systems that drive compliance and optimize performance. You will have the opportunity to work cross-functionally to scale the speed and throughput of our company activities.
Job Responsibilities and Description:
Your primary responsibility will be to gather requirements and develop processes with compliance built into their design. These processes will eliminate variables, save time, and reduce costs to facilitate rapid iteration and innovation. You will continuously optimize and improve these processes to enhance efficiency over time, moving from one method to another as they are built and optimized. Processes may encompass various areas such as data governance, nonconformance management, document control, automation of audits and reporting, testing, etc. as it pertains to preclinical, clinical, and manufacturing activities.
- Drive process improvements to enhance systemic compliance and quality standards, utilizing ingenuity and creative problem-solving skills.
- Design systems that increase efficiency, utilize automation, and assess impact changes have on existing workflows.
- Build software within and outside of a lab management system. Assist in maintaining, querying, and analyzing data.
- Develop dashboards that automatically display quantifiable metrics in real-time.
- Assist with deviation and audit findings, tracking, ensuring their effective execution, and coordinating timely closure of actions.
- Have a clear understanding of how to apply risk assessments.
- Display excellent people skills while working with multiple teams with diverse communication styles. Be an excellent communicator who can effectively translate user needs into design requirements.
- Apply experience in solutions architecture, logistics, project timelines, milestones, and resource management to frameworks.
- Gain a thorough understanding of multidisciplinary domains in order to inform process design.
Required Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of engineering first principles and operations engineering
- Fundamental understanding of how systems work
- Experience designing and implementing software solutions, analyzing data, and creating dashboards
- Proficient in at least one general purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Ruby, C++, Java)
- Able to apply solutions architecture concepts to lead/drive projects to completion
- Ability to identify and resolve inefficiencies in processes
- Meticulous attention to detail and organizational skills leading to thoughtful designs but you know that what matters is delivering an implementable solution that works every time
- Effective collaboration in a cross-disciplinary team environment
- Pursuing a STEM degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing/running tests for a complex system
- Experience with Operational Excellence projects
- Understanding of quality, surgery, animal research, neuroscience, and/or engineering
- Background in Industrial Engineering, Operations Engineering/Research, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, or related field
Pay Transparency:
Based on California law, the following details are for California individuals only:
$28/hr USD
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
