Interim Lab & Facilities Manager

Job description

INTERIM LAB & FACILITIES MANAGER Duration: Mid-June – Mid-October 2026 (~16 weeks) Type: Fixed-Term Contract: Location: Astera Institute, Emeryville, CA (On-Site) About Astera Institute: Astera is a private foundation on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future for all. Our flagship Residency is a one-year program that supports extraordinary technologists who are producing public goods.With our Residency program, we aim to create new pathways for brilliant scientists pursuing discoveries that don’t fit neatly into academia or industry. Astera is uniquely positioned to shape the course of rapid scientific and technological innovation: we are willing to deploy our $2.5B endowment to take on experimental projects that might fail, and we support projects and people that other organizations won't or can't. Astera operations with a small, agile team: We are staffed much more leanly than other foundations, and aim to keep bureaucracy as minimal as possible. It's more accurate to think of us as a startup than a traditional foundation. Position Summary: We are seeking a capable and proactive Interim Lab & Facilities Manager to cover a planned staff leave of absenc...