Software Engineer, BCI Applications

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.

One of them hadn't written her own name in 20 years. A father with ALS took his kids outside for the first time in six years, because the eye tracker he used before didn’t work in sunlight.

The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) team crafts the product experience for our users and writes all the software to power it. The implant streams neural activity over Bluetooth to the user's computer, and our application turns that stream into cursor movement, clicks, keystrokes, phone interactions, gaming inputs, wheelchair controls, robotic arm movements, and more. This is a novel technology: there are no existing design patterns for an input device that reads intent directly from the brain. The team spans full stack software development, design engineering, machine learning, neuroengineering, and user experience.