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.

