Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Materials Data is open at Periodic Labs in Menlo Park, CA. The posting gives a salary of $250K - $350K. Posted on Sep 1, 2026, and still on Periodic Labs’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
At Periodic Labs, we are automating scientific research in materials discovery; the data we collect, and how we represent it, is what makes this possible. We are hiring a materials scientist to work across the entire process: to find where our agents and data fail, and to fix those failures at the source. This is a hybrid research and infrastructure role. Roughly half your time will be spent working directly with…
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Hiring at Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs has 31 open roles right now, 1 of them remote. Most are in Data & Research, Engineering and Manufacturing & Trades. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $300K. See all its roles
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