Impact Careers Full-time

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.