Systems Engineer Compute

About Neuralink:

We are creating devices that enable a bi-directional interface with the brain. These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed restore sight to the blind and revolutionize how humans interact with their digital world.

Team Description:

Neuralinks Information Technology team owns the corporate environment that every engineer scientist and clinician depends on to do their work. Within IT the Compute function is responsible for the physical and server infrastructure that powers neural recording training data processing and engineering workloads: the data center floor itself the GPU and HPC clusters that run on it and the storage provisioning and monitoring that keep those systems healthy. We build this infrastructure from the ground up manage it as code and treat uptime for research workloads as production.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

Neuralink is looking for a hands-on Systems Engineer with deep expertise in data center design build and operations. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of our compute and storage infrastructure from site buildout and hardware procurement through deployment automation and day-to-day operations. The ideal candidate brings equal comfort on the data center floor and at the keyboard thrives in a fast-paced high-stakes environment and has a passion for building reliable scalable systems from the ground up. The job responsibilities will include:

• Design build and operate data center environments including power infrastructure (PDUs UPS generators) cooling systems (CRAC/CRAH liquid cooling) and scalable racking; drive capacity planning for power cooling and floor space
• Own the full server and storage lifecycle: hardware selection and procurement rack and cable commissioning with BIOS/firmware tuning and integration testing maintenance and decommission
• Administer and manage HPC and GPU clusters and high-performance storage systems
• Automate server provisioning using PXE/HTTP boot scripting (Bash PowerShell Python) and configuration management tools such as Terraform Ansible and Puppet
• Administer Linux and Windows server environments including OS deployment patching hardening and performance tuning
• Operate infrastructure monitoring and alerting; drive capacity planning for compute and storage from the data
• Plan and coordinate maintenance windows upgrades and expansions; maintain 24/7 on-call readiness for compute and storage incidents
• Ensure all systems comply with HIPAA PII handling requirements and applicable cybersecurity standards (ISO NIST)
• Author and maintain systems design documents rack and power diagrams runbooks SOPs hardware inventory and DCIM records

Required Qualifications:

• Experience building and supporting HPC or high-density compute environments: GPU clusters high-performance storage
• Hands-on experience with data center power cooling and racking design and operations
• Strong Linux server administration experience; working knowledge of Windows Server
• Experience automating bare-metal provisioning (PXE/HTTP boot) and configuration management with Terraform Ansible or Puppet
• Familiarity with DCIM tools and infrastructure monitoring (Prometheus Grafana or similar)
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP DNS DHCP and NTP as they apply to server deployment and troubleshooting
• Bachelors degree in a technical field OR equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with cluster resource managers (Slurm LSF PBS)
• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware/Hyper-V/Proxmox) and storage ecosystems (NAS/SAN NFS/iSCSI)
• Hands-on experience deploying liquid-cooled GPU racks
• Exposure to real-time systems and industrial telemetry environments
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD for infrastructure pipelines
• Industry certifications such as CDCP RHCE or equivalent data center and Linux certifications