Machine Learning Engineer

In January 2024, a man paralyzed below the shoulders received a Neuralink implant. Within days he was playing chess and Civilization VI by imagining a cursor moving. That was our first product experience: computer control decoded from 1,024 electrodes in the brain’s motor cortex.

Since then, 20+ people have been using the device, some for 17+ hours per day.

We are now working on two problems nobody has solved.

Decoding the full virtual arm. This requires deciphering 29 degrees of freedom against millisecond timescale neural spikes. The published state of the art is four degrees of individuated finger control (Willsey et al., Nature Medicine 2025). We aim to fully decipher human intent of controlling anything that a human hand is capable of doing, and build a product that our users rely on for their independence every day.