Product Jobs at Astera Institute

Astera Institute is a research organization that focuses on neuro-AI, life sciences, and open science. It runs a fully funded residency program for technologists and scientists to work on open public goods, and it funds high-impact scientific challenges. The institute is supported by a $3B endowment and operates outside the constraints of markets or academia.

Astera Institute is also hiring in hardware and science (20), engineering (10), data and AI (9), operations (3), finance and legal (1) and marketing and growth (1).

Its roles are in Emeryville, CA, US (31), Alameda, CA, US (12), remote (2) and Washington, DC, US (1).

You decide what to build, then sit with the engineers who build it. Users are close enough to call, and the roadmap changes when they tell you something surprising. At a large company you would write a spec and wait for a planning cycle.