Research Scientist, Scaling RL is open at Periodic Labs in Menlo Park, CA; Montreal, Canada. The posting gives a salary of CA$225K - CA$350K. Posted on Oct 1, 2026, and still on Periodic Labs’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
We're training frontier models to develop deep scientific knowledge and reasoning for scientific tasks. You’ll study how RL scales with training compute, develop better algorithms, and take ideas from controlled experiments to our largest runs like Periodic Neon https://periodic.com/news/nature-is-our-learning-environment. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design experiments to understand how RL performance scales with compute…
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