Tesla CEO Elon Musk is hiring engineers for his brain-machine interface company called Neuralink, saying no prior neuroscience background is required.
“This is primarily an electrical/electronic (chip design)/mechanical/software engineering problem for the Link itself & the surgical robot,” he said in a series of tweets.
“If you’ve solved hard problems with phones / wearables (sealing, signal processing, inductive charging, power mgmt, etc), please consider working at engineering@neuralink.com,” Musk added.
“Solving high-volume, high-reliability, low-cost production problems is especially valued.”
Musk earlier announced that Neuralink will provide a key update on its progress on August 28.
To help paralysed people control devices and empower people with brain disorders, Neuralink last year unveiled tiny brain “threads” in a chip which is long lasting, usable at home and has the potential to replace cumbersome devices currently used as brain-machine interfaces.
“This would solve a lot of brain/spine injuries & is ultimately essential for AI symbiosis,” Musk tweeted on Sunday.
In February this year, Musk promised an “awesome” update by Neuralink.
The technology has a module that sits outside the head, behind the ear, and receives information from “threads” embedded in the brain.
Controlled by an iPhone app, the chip called “N1 sensor” with just a USB port coming out can have as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 “threads” — each “thread” smaller than the tiniest human hair.
The company is focused on creating devices resembling tiny sewing machines that can be implanted in the human brain — to improve memory or more direct interfacing with computing devices.
–IANS