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Salary: USD 95,000 - 177,000 / annual
Neuralink is building brain-machine interface devices to restore movement to the paralyzed, restore sight to the blind, and revolutionize human-digital interaction. The Finance Team supports this mission through core financial operations, technical accounting, and controls.
You will be the first dedicated owner of Neuralink's cost accounting function in a complex, vertically integrated manufacturing environment. The company designs and manufactures its own brain implants (including micron-scale electrode threads and needle cartridges) and the surgical robot that places them. Your role combines hands-on cost accounting, technical accounting judgment, and systems design ownership.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and own the cost accounting function, including cost centers, allocation and absorption methodologies, and standard versus actual cost treatment across implant and surgical robot manufacturing
- Partner directly with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Software teams to translate product manufacturing into practical accounting processes, including tracking materials, inventory movements, labor, equipment time, and manufacturing overhead
- Serve as a key accounting stakeholder in the design and evolution of the internally developed ERP and manufacturing systems, defining requirements for inventory valuation, manufacturing cost capture, and financial data flow into the ledger
- Research complex U.S. GAAP matters and prepare technical memoranda and accounting policies, including inventory and manufacturing costs, internal-use software and cloud computing capitalization, and revenue recognition
- Design and document internal controls over financial reporting across manufacturing and related processes, and perform management testing of controls independently
- Establish and maintain standard costs, analyze manufacturing cost variances, and own product costing, inventory valuation, and cost of goods sold reporting as manufacturing scales
- Build audit-ready documentation, support external audit, and serve as technical contact for auditors on manufacturing costs and accounting matters
- Test controls over month-end close, reconciliations, and supporting schedules; use cost analysis to improve cost visibility, data quality, and accounting processes
Required Qualifications:
- 7+ years of accounting experience, including technical accounting research and documentation
- Bachelor's degree or above in accounting
- Experience with inventory, product costing, and cost of goods sold
- Accounting experience in manufacturing, hardware, medical device, or other physical-product businesses
- Ability to research unsettled questions, reach positions under U.S. GAAP, and document analysis and supporting evidence clearly for audit review
- Ability to work independently and partner fluently with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Software, translating product manufacturing into cost centers and cost data
- Willingness to perform detailed accounting work while building scalable processes, with ability and desire to navigate ambiguity at a high-growth company
Preferred Qualifications:
- CPA or CMA designation
- Big Four, public accounting, or formal technical accounting group experience
- Experience preparing audit-ready documentation and supporting external audits
- Experience defining accounting requirements for ERP implementation, configuration, or in-house development, particularly inventory and costing functionality, and understanding of data flow from BOM to PO to receipt to ledger
- Experience in complex or vertically integrated manufacturing environments, including robotics, medical devices, or advanced hardware
- Experience designing, documenting, or testing internal controls over financial reporting, including management testing of controls
- Experience at a company transitioning from development to commercial manufacturing
- Experience with standard costing, variance analysis, or absorption costing
- Technical accounting experience with internal-use software and cloud computing capitalization or revenue recognition
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
