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Research Assistant - Structural Bioinformatics (CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS)
Astera · Science
- Pay
- $75K – $100K
- Where
- Emeryville HQ
- Posted
- Jul 7
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.
What you'd do
- Maintain and run bioinformatic pipelines for structural data processing, curation, and quality control.
- Support development and benchmarking of validation metrics against experimental datasets.
- Assist with data deposition, formatting, and documentation to meet community data standards.
- Help prepare datasets, figures, and summaries for publications, reports, and presentations.
- Coordinate with Scientists and engineers on routine data management tasks and troubleshooting.
What they want
- BS or MS in bioinformatics, structural biology, computational biology, or a related field.
- Working proficiency in Python and familiarity with structural file formats (PDB, mmCIF, mtz).
- Strong organizational skills and close attention to detail in data handling.
- Comfortable working across computational and experimental teams in a research setting.
- Preferred: exposure to crystallography or cryo-EM data processing; familiarity with PDB, EMDB, or related databases.
- Benefits summary