Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Midtraining at Periodic Labs
About the role
Periodic Labs seeks a Research Scientist/Engineer to improve frontier AI models for scientific discovery. The role involves curating scientific data, generating synthetic datasets, building evaluations, and running large-scale training experiments to enhance model reasoning across materials and energy domains. Responsibilities Identify, process, and curate novel scientific data sources for model training Generate high-quality synthetic data to address gaps in scientific knowledge Build evaluati…
Interview process at Periodic Labs
General interview process (this company's specific loop isn't published - reach out if you have insider info).
- Recruiter phone screen - typically 20-40 min
- Technical screen - 1 coding problem or take-home; format varies by company
- Onsite / virtual loop - typically 4-6 rounds over 2-3 weeks; exact split of coding, systems design, and behavioral varies by role and location
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How to prepare
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