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Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Midtraining

Periodic Labs is hiring for Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Midtraining in Menlo Park, CA. Mid level. First seen October 1, 2026; open as of November 13, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Periodic Labs
Where
Menlo Park, CA
Level
Mid
First seen
October 1, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

As a Midtraining Research Engineer, you'll take base models and improve their scientific reasoning: curating and generating data, building evals, and running large-scale training experiments. Your work will also lay the groundwork for our pre-training efforts down the line. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Identify, process, and curate novel sources of scientific data for large-scale model training. - Generate high-quality synthetic data to fill gaps in scientific knowledge and reasoning. - Build evaluations that correlate with downstream scientific task performance, working closely with RL researchers,…

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