Controls & Systems – Design Consultant

Astera Institute

Controls & Systems-Design Consultant at Astera transforming control-system architecture for Gen-1 DNA-origami electrostatic actuator. Leading design requirements and ensuring system identify constraints are met.

Posted 7/24/2026contractEmeryville • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $175 - $225 per hourWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in closed-loop control-system design, system identification, and data capture for modeling in precision instrumentation. Capable of translating complex sensor and actuator characteristics into actionable design constraints while collaborating effectively with interdisciplinary teams.

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Closed-Loop Control-System DesignSystem IdentificationKalman FiltersData Capture SpecificationCollaboration with Physics and Wet-Lab Teams

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Hard Skills

Control-System Requirements DefinitionSensor Bandwidth AnalysisNoise Floor AssessmentActuator Drive-Signal DynamicsSimulation and Estimation Planning

Soft Skills

AdvisingCollaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

PhD in Controls, Robotics, Electrical Engineering

Industry Keywords

Precision InstrumentationNanoscale SystemsElectrostatic Drive-Stack DesignField-Effect Position-SensorClosed-Loop Control Architecture

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define the control-system requirements and constraints for the DNA Origami actuator–sensor system — sensor bandwidth, noise floor, and latency; actuator drive-signal range and dynamics; and end-to-end observability — and feed them 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, flagging choices that would make the system hard to stabilize, identify, or estimate.
Specify what the early ensemble and single-molecule experiments must log (sampling, excitation, metadata) so the data is usable for later system identification and ML modeling of the device response.
Sketch the closed-loop control architecture and a simulation/estimation plan (feedback stabilization, averaging, observers) that the incoming full-time Controls engineer will implement.
Provide a clean, documented handoff to the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD or MS (or equivalent industry depth) in controls, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field, with hands-on closed-loop control-system design.
Track record translating plant and sensor characteristics into design constraints, ideally for noisy, nanoscale, or precision-instrumentation systems.
Strength in system identification and estimation (Kalman filters / observers) and in specifying data capture for later modeling.
Comfort advising a physics and wet-lab team fractionally, with occasional on-site collaboration in Emeryville.

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Define the control-system requirements and constraints for the DNA Origami actuator–sensor system — sensor bandwidth, noise floor, and latency; actuator drive-signal range and dynamics; and end-to-end observability — and feed them 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, flagging choices that would make the system hard to stabilize, identify, or estimate.
Specify what the early ensemble and single-molecule experiments must log (sampling, excitation, metadata) so the data is usable for later system identification and ML modeling of the device response.
Sketch the closed-loop control architecture and a simulation/estimation plan (feedback stabilization, averaging, observers) that the incoming full-time Controls engineer will implement.
Provide a clean, documented handoff to the team. 🎯 Requirements
PhD or MS (or equivalent industry depth) in controls, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related field, with hands-on closed-loop control-system design.
Track record translating plant and sensor characteristics into design constraints, ideally for noisy, nanoscale, or precision-instrumentation systems.
Strength in system identification and estimation (Kalman filters / observers) and in specifying data capture for later modeling.
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