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AsteraAsteraEmeryville, CA

Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer architects high-performance infrastructure for large-scale Neuro-AI models and simulations, optimizes RL environments informed by neuroscience, and scales research prototypes to production while resolving technical bottlenecks.

200k – 500k/yr
HybridBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define and architect high-performance infrastructure for training large-scale models and running complex simulations.
  • Design and optimize custom RL environments informed by neuroscience.
  • Set the standard for clean, fast, production-grade code that boosts research velocity.
  • Turn research prototypes into scalable production systems.
  • Tackle systemic technical bottlenecks, from low-level optimization to high-level strategy, to unblock the research team.

Qualifications

  • High-Velocity Craftsmanship: Set the bar for clean, maintainable, and well-tested code at a startup pace. Balance engineering rigor with quick iteration on research prototypes.
  • System Architecture Intuition: Proven success architecting complex systems from scratch. Understand long-term trade-offs and design infrastructure that survives research chaos.
  • Extreme Adaptability: Track record of diving into complex domains (e.g., distributed systems to neuroscience), mastering them quickly, and guiding others.
  • Mastery of Hard Problems: Leading resolution of difficult engineering challenges, such as massive scale distributed systems or kernel-level optimization.

Skills

PythonDistributed SystemsReinforcement LearningSystem ArchitectureHigh-Performance ComputingKubernetesPyTorchJAXNeuroscience ModelingProduction SystemsKernel Optimization

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