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Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Materials Data

Periodic Labs is hiring for Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Materials Data in Menlo Park, CA. Senior level. First seen August 19, 2026; open as of November 11, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Periodic Labs
Where
Menlo Park, CA
Level
Senior
First seen
August 19, 2026
Listed via
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What the posting says

This role requires domain depth, not just data engineering skill. You need to know, for example, what metadata actually matters for a given characterization technique. The research half of the role keeps you grounded in the problems we are actually using LLMs to solve, so the schemas you build serve real research rather than an abstraction of it. The work demands attention to detail and a willingness to get into the weeds: to meticulously read, understand, and improve our data. You'll be as much a materials scientist doing research as the person who makes our agentic harness actually work.…

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