# Software Engineer, Biomolecular Structure Software

About Astera Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward a better future. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fields to accelerate innovation. This inflection point provides an unparalleled opportunity to fundamentally rethink the institutions, systems, and tools that drive progress. We have committed a $3.5B endowment to that work and fit the form of our support to the function it serves: grants, investments, and in-house research programs. We accept meaningful risk in the research we back and expect some of it to fail because transformative ideas are rarely the ones already proven. Our projects, and the foundation itself, operate like high-velocity startups, with a high performance bar and competitive compensation to match. We are searching for leaders who are compelled by the challenge of driving high-impact change in the way science is funded, conducted, and communicated. You can read more about our mission, vision, and programming atastera.org/vision. Team Overview Prism is making protein motion measur

- **Id**: 4283573
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/astera-institute-software-engineer-biomolecular-structure-software>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Emeryville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:38:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T02:47:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6239
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Research Labs, Nonprofits & Foundations, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 7738
- **Name**: Astera Institute
- **Domain**: asterainstitute.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/asterainstitute>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 33
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 102
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 240000
- **Max**: 280000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 280000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:06:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 2; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 102
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T04:49:31Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 280000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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