Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Midtraining

Join Periodic Labs as a Midtraining Research Engineer to enhance state-of-the-art AI models with deep scientific reasoning. You will curate and generate data, build evaluations, and run large-scale training experiments to accelerate breakthroughs in materials, energy, and beyond. This role is crucial for advancing scientific discovery through AI.

• Curate and generate scientific data for large-scale model training
• Build evaluations correlating with downstream scientific task performance
• Apply techniques like self-distillation for model improvement
• Design and run large-scale training experiments on thousands of GPUs
• Experience training LLMs on trillions of tokens
• Comfortable working across data, evals, and training infrastructure