About the job
About Astera:
Astera is a pioneering private foundation endowed with $2.5 billion, dedicated to innovating science and technology to create a prosperous future for everyone. Unlike conventional foundations, we operate like a fast-paced startup, enjoying unparalleled access to computational resources and the freedom from funding constraints or profit-driven motives. This unique approach enables us to pursue ambitious goals and attract exceptionally talented scientists and engineers from elite academic institutions and cutting-edge AI laboratories.
Our flagship initiative, Obelisk, is a large-scale AI research endeavor that employs a neuroscience-informed strategy to develop Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). We are not just another lab scaling large language models in hopes of achieving general intelligence; instead, we are synthesizing neuroscience, AI, and bioengineering to comprehend and digitally replicate the human brain's architecture.
Position Overview:
We are in search of a driven Senior Software Engineer who is eager to assist us in reverse-engineering the human brain.
This role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities:
- Designing high-performance infrastructure for training large-scale models and executing complex simulations.
- Creating and optimizing custom reinforcement learning environments informed by neuroscience principles.
- Writing clean, efficient, production-quality code that accelerates our research efforts.
- Transforming research prototypes into scalable production systems.
- Addressing technical challenges, from low-level optimizations to high-level system designs, to facilitate the research team's progress.