Experimental Neuroscientist
Astera InstituteAI Research, company
Emeryville, United StatesSenior
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Design and lead neuroscience research programs to understand and modulate brain functions.
- •Astera Neuro is seeking Experimental Neuroscientists to develop and lead research programs aimed at understanding how the brain models the physical world, forms new thoughts, and creates a stable model of the self.
- •The goal is to achieve enough understanding and technical ability to precisely and reversibly modulate these functions through write-in experiments.
- •Key Responsibilities Design behavioral paradigms and execute large-scale neural recording experiments.
- •Design and execute causal perturbation experiments targeting percepts, thoughts, and internal states.
- •Analyze datasets to support stable, brain-wide, single-neuron-resolution representations.
- •Collaborate with computational, engineering, and software teams.
- •Contribute to publications, talks, and open data releases.
- •Requirements Hands-on experience with chronic, multi-area, large-scale electrophysiology in awake, behaving animals.
- •Demonstrated ability to lead a systems neuroscience project end to end.
- •Strong quantitative and computational skills, with fluency in Python and/or MATLAB.
- •Experience with optogenetic, electrical, or other causal perturbation methods.
Required skills
PythonGit
Domain expertise
deeptechbiotechhealthcare
Tech stack
PythonGit