Research Scientist, Data
Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Montreal, Canada
CHECKED 19H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsite$250k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own evaluation and data strategy across the scientific AI training stack.
- Translate advanced scientific workflows into rigorous evals and benchmarks.
- Build RL environments and pipelines linking experiments to model training.
Ideal candidate
Research-minded scientist-engineer who loves turning complex lab workflows into rigorous evals and datasets. You care about data quality and tight feedback loops between science and model improvement.
Requirements
- Designed evaluations, benchmarks, or RL environments for language models, agents, or scientific AI systems
- Built large-scale data pipelines for LLM pretraining, midtraining, post-training, or evaluation
- Strong judgment about dataset and evaluation quality, including scientific relevance, coverage, provenance, licensing, and contamination risks
- Strong software and data engineering skills, including familiarity with data processing at scale, dataset versioning, lineage tracking
- A research-oriented mindset: you form hypotheses about data, run controlled experiments, measure model outcomes, and iterate with rigor
- Research experience in areas such as materials science, solid state chemistry, chemistry, computational physics, semiconductors
- visa sponsorship
- Yes, we sponsor visas.
Lab profile
About Periodic Labs
AI and physical sciences company building state-of-the-art models to accelerate breakthroughs in materials and energy.
What they build
- State-of-the-art AI models for scientific discovery
Known for
- Materials science
- Energy
- Semiconductors
- Lab automation
Key facts
- Backed by world-class investors