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Vivarium Operations Manager
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About the Role Astera Neuro is a neuroscience research company building the tools and infrastructure required to understand how the brain works at scale. We are bringing online a new rodent vivarium in Emeryville to support our in vivo neuroscience programs, including a substantial optogenetics andEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 140000 - 180000 1 YEAR
Research Scientist / Engineer, Two-Photon Imaging & Holographic Optogenetics
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ABOUT THE ROLE Astera Neuro is a neuroscience research company building the tools and infrastructure required to understand how the brain works at scale. This role is central to that mission. You will lead development of a miniaturized two-photon microscope capable of simultaneous cellular-resolutiEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 180000 - 230000 1 YEAR
Senior Research Associate, Rodent Neuroscience
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ABOUT THE ROLE The Senior Research Associate will play a central role in building and running our rodent program. You will care for the colony, prepare animals for high-resolution functional imaging, perform the surgeries that make those experiments possible, and process tissue afterward. You willEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 100000 - 150000 1 YEAR
Radial Postdoctoral Fellow – Dynamic Structural Biology (diffUSE Project)
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RADIAL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW – DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY (DIFFUSE PROJECT) Salary: $70K Location: Ithaca, NY (Cornell University) with travel to partner sites POSITION SUMMARY The diffUSE Project is seeking a highly motivated structural biologist to push the boundaries of X-ray crystallographyEmployment Type: Contract
Salary: USD 70000 - 70000 1 YEAR
Software Engineer, Neural Data / VR / Closed-Loop Systems
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ABOUT THE ROLE Astera Neuro is a neuroscience research company building the tools and infrastructure required to understand how the brain works at scale. Software Engineers, working closely with computational neuroscientists, will build the computational backbone of Astera Neuro, including stimulusEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 150000 - 250000 1 YEAR
Machine Learning Researcher - Springtail
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ASTERA INSTITUTE MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCHER - SPRINGTAIL POSITION SUMMARY Datasets in many areas, science in particular, are often small, heterogeneous, and expensive. Human scientists can take these datasets and generate models to describe them, but this process of model induction is labor-inEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 150000 - 300000 1 YEAR
Engineer, Mechanical / Electrical / Optical
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ABOUT THE ROLE Astera Neuro is a neuroscience research company building the tools and infrastructure required to understand how the brain works at scale. This role sits at the heart of that mission. We are looking for a hands-on engineer and fabricator who can take an idea from a rough sketch to aEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 150000 - 300000 1 YEAR
Scientist - Structural Biology Machine Learning
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ABOUT ASTERA: Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fieldsEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 120000 - 220000 1 YEAR
Software Engineer, The Stacks - Radial Science
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ABOUT ASTERA: Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fieldsEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 100000 - 200000 1 YEAR
Senior Software Engineer, The Stacks - Radial Science
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ABOUT ASTERA: Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fieldsEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 200000 - 400000 1 YEAR
Scientist - Computational Biophysics
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ABOUT ASTERA: Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fieldsEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 100000 - 180000 1 YEAR
Head of Bio AI - Radial
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ABOUT ASTERA: Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fieldsEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 400000 - 600000 1 YEAR
Scientist - Structural Informatics Infrastructure
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ABOUT ASTERA Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fields tEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 100000 - 180000 1 YEAR
Research Scientist/Engineer
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ASTERA INSTITUTE RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of Artificial GeneralEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 150000 - 300000 1 YEAR
Research Scientist: Hierarchical RL Agents
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ASTERA INSTITUTE RESEARCH SCIENTIST: HIERARCHICAL RL AGENTS ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of ArtEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 150000 - 300000 1 YEAR
Research Scientist: Energy Based Models
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ASTERA INSTITUTE RESEARCH SCIENTIST: ENERGY BASED MODELS ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of ArtifiEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 150000 - 300000 1 YEAR
Research Scientist: Hierarchical Sensorimotor Perception
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ASTERA INSTITUTE RESEARCH SCIENTIST: HIERARCHICAL SENSORIMOTOR PERCEPTION ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational priEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 150000 - 300000 1 YEAR
Residency Program - Fall 2026 Cohort
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ABOUT US: Astera is a 501(c)(3) philanthropic foundation on a mission to help lead humanity’s transition to a scientifically advanced, abundant future. In service of this mission, we support the creation of public goods for science and technology. You can read about our mission and vision here httpEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 125000 - 250000 1 YEAR
Senior Research Scientist - Simplex
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WHAT WE'RE BUILDING AT SIMPLEX At Simplex, we're building a science of intelligence. Our aim is to develop and apply a rigorous theory of latent internal structure in neural networks, and how that structure relates to computation and behavior. We believe that when dealing with intelligence, undersEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 180000 - 400000 1 YEAR
Research Scientist
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WHAT WE'RE BUILDING AT SIMPLEX At Simplex, we're building a science of intelligence. Our aim is to develop and apply a rigorous theory of latent internal structure in neural networks, and how that structure relates to computation and behavior. We believe that when dealing with intelligence, undersEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 140000 - 200000 1 YEAR
Staff Software Engineer
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ABOUT ASTERA: Astera is a private foundation with a $2.5B endowment on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future for all. Unlike traditional foundations, we operate like a high-velocity startup with unprecedented access to computational resources and complete freedom fromEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 200000 - 500000 1 YEAR
Site Reliability Engineer
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ABOUT ASTERA: Astera is a private foundation with a $2.5B endowment on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future for all. Unlike traditional foundations, we operate like a high-velocity startup with unprecedented access to computational resources and complete freedom fromEmployment Type: FullTime
Salary: USD 100000 - 300000 1 YEAR