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Ultrasound Engineer

Nudge

Nudge

San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 140k-270k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 15, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

EngineeringHardware

About Nudge

At Nudge, our mission is to develop the best technology for interfacing with the brain to improve people's lives. We're starting with an approach that we believe can help the most people the fastest, and also allow us to learn as much about the brain as possible: developing a non-invasive, ultrasound-based device that can stimulate and image the brain at high resolution and depth. This is a vertically integrated effort building cutting-edge hardware, software, and research capabilities to create products that can benefit millions — and eventually billions — of people.

We’ve brought together a team of the best, who believe hard things are worth doing. To succeed, we need to assemble world-class teams across everything we do. We hire people who are exceptional at their craft, do the real work, and execute relentlessly — people who expect the highest levels of both rigor and integrity from each other.

About the team

The engineering team at Nudge works at the intersection of neuroscience, software, machine learning, firmware, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and acoustics. Our team includes engineers who have led development of the surgical robot at Neuralink, built augmented-reality hardware at Apple, and designed parts on SpaceX Starlink satellites. We are scrappy, hands-on, and welcome exceptional individuals who are passionate about their craft and energized by working on impactful, technical challenges.

About the role

We’re hiring ultrasound engineers with experience in designing and fabricating transducers. Be a part of developing a range of acoustic modules including high efficiency transmit and high bandwidth receive stacks. Lead projects iterating over material design and performance evaluation to power our next generation ultrasound neuromodulation devices.

About you

  • 3+ years of experience working with transducer design

  • Experience with multiphysics acoustoelectric modeling

  • Strong fundamentals in materials science with respect to piezoelectrics

Compensation Range

$140,000 - $270,000/year + equity

While this represents our expected range based on market data, final compensation will be determined based on your specific qualifications and may be outside this range.