Frontier AI Research Engineer for Scientific Discovery
periodic labsMenlo Park (CA)
Frontier AI Research Engineer for Scientific Discovery
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periodic labsMenlo Park (CA)
Computer and Information Research ScientistsResearch and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
SENIORITY
Mid
About the role
Periodic Labs in Menlo Park, CA seeks a Midtraining Research Engineer to advance scientific reasoning in frontier models. You will curate data, build evals, and run large-scale training experiments, laying groundwork for future pre-training efforts. You will collaborate with RL researchers, physicists, and chemists to design scalable workflows across thousands of GPUs and develop tools to analyze how data choices shape model intelligence.
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