Principal Software Engineer, Neuroscience Platforms

Job summary

ABOUT THE ROLE At Astera Neuro, we are deciphering how activity across billions of neurons becomes thought, perception, and the conscious experience of the world and ourselves. Doing that requires building cutting-edge tools and infrastructure to interface with, record, and control neural activity at an unprecedented scale.

Qualifications

• At Astera Neuro, we are deciphering how activity across billions of neurons becomes thought, perception, and the conscious experience of the world and ourselves.
• Exceptional software engineering fundamentals, proven in production.
• You write clean, testable, well-documented code and approach system design thoughtfully.
• The range and independence to take a rough idea or open-ended goal, scope a path to a working system, and move forward without waiting for a complete spec.
• A deep intuition for latency, hardware limits, and data bottlenecks, earned building real-time or performance-critical systems in production (game engines, robotics, embedded systems, audio/video pipelines, or similar).
• Proficiency in at least two of: Python, C++, C#, Rust.
• Intellectually curious, collaborative, and eager to learn the science around you.
• Comfort working across the full stack, from low-level hardware interfaces to cloud infrastructure, with the ability to build and iterate on human-facing research systems with speed and taste.
• A history of mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives, with the judgment to set technical direction across teams.
• Familiarity with brain-machine interfaces, neural data acquisition systems, neural data formats and analysis

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