Research Scientist, Scaling RL
Periodic Labs is hiring for Research Scientist, Scaling RL in Menlo Park, CA; Montreal, Canada. Senior level. First seen October 1, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.
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- Company
- Periodic Labs
- Where
- Menlo Park, CA; Montreal, Canada
- Level
- Senior
- First seen
- October 1, 2026
- Listed via
- Ashby
What the posting says
WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design experiments to understand how RL performance scales with compute, model size, data, and reward quality, building on work such as ScaleRL https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13786 - Develop better RL algorithms, spanning policy optimization, advantage estimation, exploration, and credit assignment for long-horizon RL tasks - Build adaptive sampling and curriculum methods that adjust task difficulty, problem selection, and the number of rollouts as models improve - Study bias and stability during RL training, including importance-sampling corrections and methods to tackle policy…
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