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Optical Engineer, Precision Instrumentation

Astera Institute is hiring for Optical Engineer, Precision Instrumentation in Alameda. Mid level. First seen August 17, 2026; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Astera Institute
Where
Alameda
Level
Mid
First seen
August 17, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

Because the science and tools required do not yet exist, we are assembling a founding team of neuroscientists, theorists, and engineers to create them. We do high-risk, high-reward science in a well-resourced, collaborative environment with competitive pay, and share everything openly under Astera's Open Science Policy. POSITION SUMMARY Reading and writing complex neural activity patterns with light, via two-photon imaging and two-photon optogenetics, is one of the principal ways Astera Neuro will pursue this mission. You will design and build the optical systems our experiments depend on,…

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