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periodic-labs

Sep 01

Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Materials Data

Onsite Menlo Park, CA

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Job description

You will work on automating scientific research in materials discovery in Menlo Park, CA. This role combines hands-on research with improving data systems for LLM agents.

Details

  • Menlo Park, CA, work from office
  • $250,000-350,000 + equity
  • 4+ years of research or industry experience
  • PhD in Materials Science, Chemistry, or related field

The work

  • Collaborate with lab scientists and computational teams on research problems
  • Identify and eliminate data errors and agentic failure modes
  • Restructure materials databases based on LLM reasoning
  • Build research software for lab environments