Principal Software Engineer Neuroscience Platforms
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
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