Research Engineer, Lab Automation is open at Periodic Labs in Menlo Park, CA. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $250K. Posted on Aug 15, 2026, and still on Periodic Labs’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
We're building an autonomous lab to speed up materials discovery, and we need someone who understands thin film research from the inside - someone who's deposited and characterized films, troubleshot instruments, and knows what makes an experiment reproducible. As our Research Engineer, you'll work directly with scientists to understand what they're trying to learn, then translate that into the hardware setups…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Periodic Labs’s careers page.
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