Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Midtraining
Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA
CHECKED 20H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsite$250k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Train frontier models to build deep scientific reasoning for discovery.
- Curate novel scientific data and generate synthetic data to fill gaps.
- Run large-scale training experiments across thousands of GPUs.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
You are an LLM training practitioner who loves working across data, evals, and infrastructure to push scientific reasoning forward. You thrive owning large experiments and turning data choices into measurable intelligence gains.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or similar experience
- Experience training LLMs on curated mixes of trillions of tokens
- Experience on a dedicated evals team supporting a large production training run
- Hands-on use of self-distillation, on-policy distillation, or similar methods in a real training pipeline
- Experience with scaling laws and compute-optimal hyperparameters
- Comfort working across data, evals, and training infrastructure
- visa sponsorship
- Yes, we sponsor visas and will do everything we can to assist in this process.
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