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Human Neuroscientist, Intracranial Recording
2 months agoAstera Institute · Alameda, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$120K – $220K a yearAstera Neuro is setting up a human neuroscience initiative to collect, process, and analyze intracranial data at scale. We are hiring human neuroscientists to lead this program, conducting large-scale studies of the compositional representations underlying language,…
Research Associate, Rodent Surgery & Behavior
2 months agoAstera Institute · Alameda, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$80K – $120K a yearScience & researchAstera Neuro seeks to understand and engineer consciousness. We believe consciousness is the process by which the brain builds a coherent internal model of the world and the self. We aim to understand this model and to develop the technologies to write experience directly into…
Research Scientist
2 months agoAstera Institute · Alameda, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$120K – $220K a yearScience & researchAstera Neuro seeks to understand and engineer consciousness. We believe consciousness is the process by which the brain builds a coherent internal model of the world and the self. We aim to understand this model and to develop the technologies to write experience directly into…
Senior/Staff AI Scientist (Polytope Bio)
3 months agoAstera Institute · Emeryville, California, United States +1
RemoteFull-timeLead / staff$200K – $300K a yearData & AIToday's frontier biological AI models are trained almost entirely on static, pre-existing data. They are powerful pattern matchers, but lack feedback from real biology.
Astera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridContract$175.00 – $225.00 an hourOperationsThe Astera Institute is seeking a Controls & Systems-Design Consultant to shape the control-system architecture and requirements of the Gen-1 DNA-origami electrostatic actuator so the device is designed, from the outset, to be observable and controllable. This is an early,…
Nanoelectronics & Device-Physics Engineer
3 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$200K – $230K a yearEngineeringThe Astera Institute is seeking a Nanoelectronics & Device-Physics Engineer to design the electrostatic drive and the field-effect position sensor for a nanoscale actuator, and own its fabrication process and electrical characterization. This position reports to Dr. Jeremy…
Astera Institute · Alameda, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$300K – $450K a yearEngineeringAstera Neuro seeks to understand and engineer consciousness. We believe consciousness is the process by which the brain builds a coherent internal model of the world and the self. We aim to understand this model and to develop the technologies to write experience directly into…
Astera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$250K – $400K a yearEngineeringAstera Neuro seeks to understand and engineer consciousness. We believe consciousness is the process by which the brain builds a coherent internal model of the world and the self. We aim to understand this model and to develop the technologies to write experience directly into…
Software Engineer, The Stacks
4 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$100K – $200K a yearEngineeringThe Astera Institute is seeking a full-time software engineer to help build and scale The Stacks (https://thestacks.org), a new content platform designed to meaningfully improve how scientific, technical, and intellectual work is shared, discovered, and built upon. The ideal…
General Prism Job Application
5 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
Full-time$100K – $300K a yearScience & researchDiffraction data processing and structural data pipelines; Multiconformer and heterogeneity analysis from large datasets; Data standards work (mmCIF and related); Macromolecular ensemble metrics
Machine Learning Researcher - Springtail
7 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearData & AIDatasets 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-intensive and error-prone. Machine learning is a general and…
Head of Bio AI - Radial
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeDirector$400K – $600K a yearScience & researchHire a founding technical leader to serve as the CEO’s technical co-pilot; the person who co-architects Radial’s scientific and technical direction, builds the AI and computational infrastructure across programs, and sets the technical bar through their own hands-on work. This…
Astera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$100K – $180K a yearScience & researchPrism is seeking a Scientist to join a multidisciplinary team to help build the infrastructure needed to host and distribute dynamic structural biology data. Prism is a program within Radial, the basic life sciences division of the Astera Institute. We are making protein motion…
Astera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe 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 General Intelligence. We believe that…
Research Scientist: Hierarchical RL Agents
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe 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 General Intelligence. We believe that…
Research Scientist/Engineer
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearEngineeringWe 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 General Intelligence. We believe that…
Research Scientist: Energy Based Models
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe 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 General Intelligence. We believe that…
Research Scientist - Simplex
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$140K – $200K a yearScience & researchAt 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.
Site Reliability Engineer
9 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$100K – $300K a yearEngineeringWe are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to own the digital infrastructure that powers our research.
Staff Software Engineer
9 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$200K – $500K a yearEngineeringWe are looking for an ambitious Staff Software Engineer to help us reverse-engineer the human brain.
Updated 06 Nov 2026 09:37 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.