General Prism Job Application
Astera Institute is an active nonprofit research institute and foundation that operates in-house neuroscience-informed AI research and funds, operates, and supports open-science programs and public goods.
About Astera Institute
Astera operates three divisions: Neuro-AI, Radial life-sciences research, and its Foundation. Its AI work pursues neuroscience-informed approaches to artificial general intelligence, while its foundation and Radial activities support open scientific infrastructure, datasets, research programs, and residencies.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will contribute to Prism in an area that matches your expertise, such as computational and data science, machine learning research, dataset generation, software engineering, program management, communications, or open-science community building. You will work on protein dynamics and open scientific infrastructure.
Requirements
- Familiarity with protein biophysics and experimental structural-data methods
- Ability to drive projects and collaborators
- Ability to own problems end to end
- Commitment to open science and public-good infrastructure
- Ability to work across disciplines
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Track record of independent work in collaborative teams
Responsibilities
- Process diffraction and structural data
- Analyze multiconformer and heterogeneous datasets
- Develop data standards and macromolecular ensemble metrics
- Research machine learning for protein dynamics and experimental data
- Generate and release structural datasets
- Build scientific data infrastructure and tooling
- Support program management, scientific coordination, communications, publishing, or community building
Hiring Process
Submit a CV and a paragraph describing your contribution; submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis; the employer will contact candidates if there is a fit.