Research Scientist Research Engineer Midtraining
AI research and deployment company building AI scientists and autonomous laboratories for physical-science discovery.
About Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs develops specialized AI models and high-throughput autonomous labs that run and analyze physical experiments, initially for materials discovery including superconductors, magnets, and semiconductor applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will improve base models’ scientific reasoning by curating and generating data, building evaluations, and running large-scale training experiments. You will develop distillation techniques, investigate how data choices affect model intelligence, and create tools that support data, evaluation, and training work.
Requirements
- Experience training LLMs on curated mixes of trillions of tokens
- Experience supporting a large production training run on a dedicated evaluation team
- Hands-on experience with 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, evaluations, and training infrastructure
- Bachelor’s degree or similar experience
Responsibilities
- Identify, process, and curate novel scientific data sources for large-scale model training
- Generate high-quality synthetic data for scientific knowledge and reasoning
- Build evaluations that correlate with downstream scientific task performance
- Develop and apply self-distillation and on-policy distillation techniques
- Design and run large-scale training experiments
- Build tools to investigate how data choices shape model intelligence
Benefits
- Equity
- Visa sponsorship