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Software Engineer at Periodic Labs

Department: Science

Compensation · Listed in posting

$250,000 – $350,000/yr

Setup
On-site
Location
Menlo Park, California
Type
Full-time
Level
not_specified
Posted

Description

Periodic Labs is hiring a Software Engineer to build backend and distributed systems for an AI-native physical science laboratory. The role focuses on scheduling and orchestrating long-running scientific workloads across compute clusters, instruments, and shared resources; designing APIs, data models, and service boundaries; implementing durable state, retries, failure handling, observability, and provenance; and converting research prototypes into reliable production systems. The engineer will collaborate with scientists, infrastructure engineers, and lab engineers to improve experimental throughput, reliability, and reproducibility.

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