Control Systems Engineer - DNA Origami & Nanoscale Systems at Astera Institute | Torre
Control Systems Engineer - DNA Origami & Nanoscale Systems
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Control Systems Engineer - DNA Origami & Nanoscale Systems

Astera Institute
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Jeremy Barton
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Freelance
Recurrent
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USD175 - 225/hour
Negotiable
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Hybrid (Emeryville, California, EE. UU.)
Posted about 1 month ago

Responsibilities

Responsibilities: - Define the control-system requirements and constraints for the DNA origami actuator-sensor system, including sensor bandwidth, noise floor, and latency. - Define actuator drive-signal range and dynamics. - Define end-to-end observability. - Feed control-system requirements and constraints into the device-physics and DNA-origami design decisions early. - Review the field-effect (FET) position-sensor and electrostatic drive-stack designs through a controls lens. - Flag design choices that would make the system hard to stabilize, identify, or estimate. - Specify what the early ensemble and single-molecule experiments must log, including sampling, excitation, and metadata. - Ensure data is usable for later system identification and ML modeling of the device response. - Sketch the closed-loop control architecture. - Sketch a simulation and estimation plan, including feedback stabilization, averaging, and observers, that the incoming full-time controls engineer will implement. - Provide a clean, documented handoff to the team. Qualifications and Experience: - PhD or MS, or equivalent industry depth, in controls, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field. - Hands-on closed-loop control-system design experience. - Track record translating plant and sensor characteristics into design constraints, ideally for noisy, nanoscale, or precision-instrumentation systems. - Strength in system identification and estimation, including Kalman filters and observers. - Strength in specifying data capture for later modeling. - Comfort advising a physics and wet-lab team fractionally, with occasional on-site collaboration in Emeryville. Cultural Alignment: - Surprising problem-solver who loves finding unexpected solutions to problems and sees options where others only see constraints. - High standards and internally driven, holding yourself to the bar of building world-class public goods without benchmarking against others. - Embrace the tools that define great work today, viewing them as genuine force multipliers.
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