Precision Instrumentation Control & Estimation Consultant

The role

The consultant will shape the control-system architecture and requirements of the Gen-1 DNA-origami electrostatic actuator. This involves setting closed-loop and system-identification constraints into device-physics and molecular-design decisions.

What you will do

• Define the control-system requirements and constraints for the DNA Origami actuator–sensor system
• Review the field-effect (FET) position-sensor and electrostatic drive-stack designs through a controls lens
• Specify what the early ensemble and single-molecule experiments must log
• Sketch the closed-loop control architecture and a simulation/estimation plan
• Provide a clean, documented handoff to the team

Required qualifications

• PhD or MS (or equivalent industry depth) in controls, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field
• Hands-on closed-loop control-system design
• Track record translating plant and sensor characteristics into design constraints
• Strength in system identification and estimation (Kalman filters / observers)
• Strength in specifying data capture for later modeling
• Comfort advising a physics and wet-lab team fractionally

Nice to have

• ideally for noisy, nanoscale, or precision-instrumentation systems

About the company

Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward a better future. They have committed a $3.5B endowment to grants, investments, and in-house research programs.