Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Materials Data

The role

This is a hybrid research and infrastructure role. You will work with experimental and computational scientists to build agents and tools, and improve the data those agents depend on.

What you will do

• Work with lab scientists and the computational team on active research problems.
• Investigate agent traces to identify and eliminate data errors and agentic failure modes.
• Restructure and re-architect materials databases around how LLM agents reason and fail.
• Work with hardware and automation teams to make data collection more robust.
• Build research software for lab environments.
• Distill learnings into evaluations that measure agent performance.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of research or industry experience in experimental or computational materials science and working with data at scale.
• PhD in Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.

Benefits

• equity

Before you apply

• We sponsor visas.

About the company

Periodic Labs is an AI and physical sciences company building state-of-the-art models to accelerate breakthroughs across materials, energy, and beyond.