Senior Software Engineer
Astera
Posted
Jan 29, 2026
Location
Remote
Type
Full-time
Compensation
$100000 - $100000
Mission
What you will drive
- Architect high-performance infrastructure for training large-scale models and running complex simulations.
- Design and optimize custom RL environments informed by neuroscience.
- Write clean, fast, production-grade code that boosts research velocity.
- Turn research prototypes into scalable production systems and tackle technical bottlenecks to unblock the research team.
Impact
The difference you'll make
This role contributes to reverse-engineering the human brain through AI research, helping steer science and technology toward an abundant future for all by advancing the understanding and digital modeling of brain architecture.
Profile
What makes you a great fit
- High-velocity craftsmanship: ability to produce clean, maintainable, well-tested code at a startup pace while balancing engineering rigor with rapid iteration.
- System architecture intuition: deep experience architecting complex systems from scratch and designing infrastructure that survives research chaos.
- Extreme adaptability: track record of diving into complex domains (e.g., from distributed systems to neuroscience) and mastering them quickly.
- Mastery of hard problems: proven ability to tackle difficult engineering challenges like massive-scale distributed systems or low-level optimization.
Benefits
What's in it for you
No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the posting.