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# Associate General Counsel, Privacy & Compliance at Neuralink

- **Company:** Neuralink
- **Location:** Austin Texas, United States / South San Francisco California, United States
- **Compensation:** $190k–$316k
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/neuralink/jobs/7780172003?gh_jid=7780172003

## Job description

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

We are a small, dedicated legal team deeply embedded in the business. You will be a vital part of a collaborative and adaptive team that embraces a growth mindset. We handle a wide range of legal issues, and you will have the opportunity to take ownership of key projects and make a tangible, company-wide impact on the business.

Job Description and Responsibilities

Neuralink is hiring an Associate General Counsel to build and lead the company’s privacy and compliance program end-to-end. You will own the privacy strategy across our most sensitive data — neural recordings, clinical trial data, and the health information of the patients we serve — and stand up the compliance program that governs how Neuralink interacts with clinical investigators, physicians, hospitals, patients, and federal healthcare programs.

You will report to the General Counsel and partner closely with Clinical, Regulatory, and Engineering. You will set the privacy and compliance posture, design the program, and translate complex global obligations into clear guardrails the team can move quickly within. We are looking for an operator-attorney who is excited to roll up their sleeves, not someone who wants to manage a program from a distance.

As our Associate General Counsel, Privacy & Compliance, you will:

- Lead Neuralink’s privacy program across the United States and international jurisdictions, including governance, policies, training, vendor diligence, incident response, and data subject rights.
- Serve as the company’s subject-matter authority on HIPAA and clinical trial data. Partner with Clinical, Regulatory, and research ethics committee liaisons to ensure informed consent, BAAs, and study protocols are aligned with patient privacy expectations, best practices, and regulatory requirements.
- Own global privacy compliance and the full set of US state privacy laws. Drive privacy compliance for new market entry as Neuralink expands clinical trials and product availability internationally.
- Drive Privacy by Design with Product and Engineering, including conducting PIAs and DPIAs for new features and clinical study protocols, advising on data minimization and retention, and helping engineering teams ship faster by giving clear, early, implementable guidance.
- Lead vendor privacy reviews and DPA negotiations, including BAAs, SCCs, transfer impact assessments, and subprocessor management, and own the data flow map for the company.
- Maintain the company’s privacy notices, internal data handling standards, employee privacy policies, and DSAR/data rights response process.
- Lead the privacy incident response function in partnership with Security; own breach assessment, notification analysis, and regulator-facing communications.
- Lead Neuralink’s healthcare compliance program, including the policies, training, monitoring, auditing, and reporting infrastructure of a company operating in a federally regulated healthcare environment (OIG Seven Elements framework).
- Advise on interactions with healthcare professionals, hospitals, and clinical investigators, including AdvaMed Code adherence, Sunshine Act reporting, state HCP-interaction laws
- Track and translate regulatory developments and enforcements into concrete operational changes.

## Key Qualifications

- A J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one state bar (California or Texas preferred).
- Privacy experience at a medical device company or high-growth health technology company (e.g., digital health, wearable tech, or life science company specializing in devices or advanced clinical data systems).
- A minimum of 10 years of privacy-focused legal practice, with substantial in-house experience leading a privacy program. CIPP/US and CIPP/E (or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with HIPAA (Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules), including BAA negotiation and the privacy dimensions of clinical research (IRB processes, informed consent).
- Demonstrated command of GDPR, UK GDPR, and the US state privacy law landscape, including international data transfers and DPO/representative obligations.
- Track record of running Privacy by Design with engineering and product teams — PIAs, DPIAs, data mapping, and embedding privacy into product development.
- Strong contracts background: DPAs, BAAs, vendor privacy provisions.
- Operational fluency. You can build a program, not just advise on one. You have personally stood up policies, processes, and tooling, and you know how to measure whether they’re working.
- Excellent judgment under ambiguity. You can take a novel question with no clean regulatory analog and produce a clear, defensible answer that the business can act on.
- Clear writing, rigor, and direct communication. You can translate privacy law into guidance engineers and clinicians can actually use.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Familiarity with the privacy issues unique to neural, biometric, and other sensitive categories of data.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML governance and the privacy interplay with model training data, including EU AI Act obligations.
- Experience supporting international expansion (clinical trial site activation, data localization, cross-border transfers).
- Comfort engaging directly with regulators.
- Experience running a compliance hotline and privileged internal investigations, and evaluating OIG/CMS self-disclosure pathways.

## What You’ll Find Here

A mission you can’t get anywhere else. A small, dense team that ships, gives you real ownership, and expects you to think for yourself. The hardest privacy problems in the industry, and the trust to solve them. Expected Compensation:

The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the following range. Your actual base pay will be determined by your job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We also believe in aligning our employees’ success with the company's long-term growth. As such, in addition to base salary, Neuralink offers equity compensation (in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSU)) for all full-time employees.

Base Salary Range: $190,000—$316,000 USD

What We Offer:

Full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits listed below.

- An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and most talented experts from different fields
- Growth potential; we rapidly advance team members who have an outsized impact
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan
- Paid holidays
- Commuter benefits
- Meals provided
- Equity (RSUs) *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- 401(k) plan *Interns initially excluded until they work 1,000 hours
- Parental leave *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded
- Flexible time off *Temporary Employees & Interns excluded

## About Neuralink

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Neuralink develops implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that decode neural signals to restore autonomy for people with paralysis and other neurological conditions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D; total funding $1.35B as of Aug 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Fremont, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Elon Musk, Max Hodak, Benjamin Rapoport, Dongjin Seo, Paul Merolla, Philip Sabes, Timothy J. Gardner, Tim Hanson, Vanessa Tolosa

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Neurotechnology / Biotechnology (implantable medical devices)
- Target customers: B2C (patients with quadriplegia, ALS, spinal cord injury), B2B (hospitals, research institutions, clinical partners)
- Mission: "Building brain interfaces to restore autonomy" – initially helping people with unmet medical needs control computers and robotic arms with their thoughts, and ultimately unlocking human potential.

## Products & Services
- **N1 Implant (“the Link”)**: Coin-sized, surgically implanted BCI that records and stimulates brain activity via flexible neural threads. Enables users to control digital devices (mouse, keyboard, apps) using thought alone. Available only in clinical trials (PRIME Study).
- **Telepathy**: Product name for the N1 Implant’s capability to allow users to control computers and mobile devices (announced by Musk).
- **Blindsight**: Experimental implant designed to restore visual perception by directly stimulating the visual cortex. Received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in September 2024.
- **Speech BCI**: Device under development to restore communication for individuals with severe speech impairment (ALS, stroke, etc.). Received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in May 2025.
- **Neurosurgical Robot**: Custom robot for autonomous, precise insertion of neural threads during surgery.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$9 billion (per Tracxn, as of 2026)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding ~$1.35 billion (13 rounds); annual revenue ~$20 million (pre-commercial, primarily from research partnerships)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders Fund (led Series D), CoreNest Capital (led 2025 venture round), Elon Musk (owns >50%). Partners include University Health Network (Toronto), FDA (regulatory collaboration).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 21 human patients implanted as of January 2026
  - Headcount grew 31.3% year-over-year to ~400 employees (with 127 active job postings)
  - Received FDA Breakthrough Device Designations for Blindsight and speech BCI
  - Expanded clinical trials to Canada (first procedures outside the U.S. in Aug/Sep 2025)
  - Patients reached typing speeds of up to 40 words per minute and achieved information transfer rates comparable to able-bodied mouse users

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover with human implants**: Only BCI company with FDA-approved human trials and over 20 implanted patients.
- **Robotic precision**: Proprietary surgical robot capable of inserting ultra-thin threads (4–6 µm) that are too fine for human hands.
- **Regulatory momentum**: Multiple FDA Breakthrough Device Designations accelerating development for vision, speech, and motor restoration.
- **Interdisciplinary talent pool**: Recruits from Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, Stanford, UCSF; team spans neuroscience, electrical engineering, robotics, and microfab.
- **High-profile leadership**: Elon Musk’s visibility draws talent, funding, and media attention.

## Strategic Focus
- **Clinical expansion**: Scale the PRIME Study to more patients and new sites (Canada, additional countries).
- **Product pipeline**: Commercialize Blindsight (vision) and speech prosthetics; develop motor/sensory restoration capabilities.
- **Regulatory pathway**: Transition from trial-only to eventual commercial approval by the FDA.
- **R&D**: Advance silent speech interfaces, cognitive enhancement, and broader neurological applications (epilepsy, depression, etc.).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Work directly on technology that restores function and independence to people with paralysis, ALS, and blindness.
- **Rapid growth**: 31% annual headcount increase; employees often advance quickly due to cross-functional, ambitious projects.
- **Culture**: Open communication and collaboration champion “the best ideas, regardless of where they come from” ([neuralink.com/careers](https://neuralink.com/careers/)).
- **Disciplines welcome**: Engineering (embedded, software, optical, analog IC), surgery/robotics, neuroscience, manufacturing, and operations.
- **Perks & environment**: Fremont HQ with plans for a larger facility near Austin. Hands-on, lab-heavy work likely requires on-site presence.
- **Career development**: Internal growth opportunities, exposure to cutting-edge science, and cross-team collaboration.

## Sources
1. [neuralink.com](https://neuralink.com/)
2. [neuralink.com/careers](https://neuralink.com/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/neuralink](https://www.linkedin.com/company/neuralink)
4. [tracxn.com/d/companies/neuralink](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/neuralink/__oUVI98zbdmLZga1LgBRb3oGJJBxjbzTc7bMWUfAOLws)
5. [builtin.com/hardware/what-is-neuralink](https://builtin.com/hardware/what-is-neuralink)

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