Teams at Periodic Labs

Own Periodic Labs’ accounting function, including close, consolidations, reconciliations, GAAP reporting, controls, audit readiness, compliance, and multi-entity accounting. Build scalable processes and systems in NetSuite, partner with finance and operational teams, oversee U.S. and international requirements, manage external advisors, and develop the internal accounting team as the company grows.

Design and integrate autonomous laboratory systems for materials discovery. Translate scientific workflows into data models and integration specifications, build automated workcells, connect instruments and robots to LIMS or MES platforms, develop instrument drivers using vendor APIs and SDKs, and integrate lab automation with AI-driven experiment planning and analysis.

Research Scientist developing and scaling reinforcement learning methods for frontier scientific language models. Responsibilities include designing compute-scaling experiments, improving policy optimization and credit assignment, developing adaptive sampling and curriculum strategies, studying training bias and stability, and improving training and inference efficiency. The role requires implementing and testing research ideas across complex training systems and transferring small-scale findings to large-scale runs.