Senior Software Engineer
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
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About the Role
You will architect high-performance infrastructure for large-scale model training and complex simulations. You will design and optimize neuroscience-informed reinforcement learning environments, turn research prototypes into scalable production systems, and resolve technical bottlenecks across low-level optimization and system design.
Requirements
- Produce clean, maintainable, well-tested code while iterating quickly on research prototypes
- Architect complex systems from scratch
- Understand system-design trade-offs
- Adapt quickly to complex domains such as neuroscience
- Solve difficult distributed-systems and low-level optimization challenges
Responsibilities
- Architect high-performance infrastructure for large-scale model training and complex simulations
- Design and optimize custom reinforcement learning environments informed by neuroscience
- Write clean, fast, production-grade code
- Turn research prototypes into scalable production systems
- Resolve technical bottlenecks across low-level optimization and system design