Principal Software Engineer Neuroscience Platforms
A 501(c)(3) science-and-technology research institute/foundation operating direct Neuro-AI research, life-sciences programs through Radial, and an open-science residency program.
About Astera Institute
Astera Institute supports and operates open public-goods work for science and technology. Its current activities include neuroscience-informed AGI research, AI-enabled life-sciences programs, open datasets and publishing infrastructure, and residencies for early-stage projects.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the software infrastructure for research systems, spanning instrument control, data acquisition, analysis, and cloud processing. You will build real-time experiment tools and data pipelines, define the technical roadmap, mentor engineers, and guide cross-system technical decisions.
Requirements
- Computer science
- Electrical engineering
- Biomedical engineering
- Neuroscience
- Physics
- Software engineering
- System design
- Real-time system
- Python
- C++
- C#
- Rust
- Hardware interface
- Cloud infrastructure
- Machine learning
- Data pipeline
- Airflow
- Prefect
- CUDA
- Vulkan
- Data acquisition
- TTL synchronization
- SPI
- Mentoring
Responsibilities
- Build synchronized stimulus presentation and acquisition systems
- Build pipelines to ingest, process, store, and quality-control neural datasets
- Build dashboards, user interfaces, and experiment-design tools
- Build cloud storage, processing, and sharing infrastructure
- Define technical roadmaps across research systems
- Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package