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Research Scientist, Data

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Montreal, Canada

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Bio & Science AIonsite$250k–$350k
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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
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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
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