Senior Software Engineer
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 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