About the job
About Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs is an innovative AI and physical sciences laboratory dedicated to constructing cutting-edge models aimed at facilitating groundbreaking scientific discoveries. With substantial funding and rapid growth, our team members are empowered as owners who proactively identify and solve challenges without the constraints of bureaucracy. We are passionate about embracing new tools and scientific insights to advance our mission.
About the Role
As a Distributed Training Engineer, you will be at the forefront of optimizing, operating, and developing large-scale distributed LLM training systems that drive AI scientific research. Collaborating closely with researchers, you will support mid-training and reinforcement learning workflows, troubleshoot issues, and maintain seamless operations. You will also build tools and directly contribute to pioneering experiments, ensuring that Periodic Labs remains the premier AI and science lab for physicists, computational materials scientists, AI researchers, and engineers. Additionally, you will play a role in advancing open-source large-scale LLM training frameworks.