ML Systems Engineer
About Periodic Labs
We're an AI and physical sciences company building state-of-the-art models to accelerate breakthroughs across materials, energy, and beyond. Backed by world-class investors and growing rapidly, we operate at the pace the frontier requires. Our team brings deep expertise, genuine ownership, and an insatiable drive to push the boundaries of what's scientifically possible.
About the Role
You’ll work alongside some of the world’s leading ML systems engineers, including leaders behind Megatron-LM, SGLang, Liger Kernel, TorchRec, CleanRL, TorchRL, and JAX-MD.
We’re looking for exceptional ML Systems Engineers to build the agentic infrastructure powering our large-scale training, inference, and reinforcement learning. You’ll own critical pieces of the ML systems stack to maximize performance, scalability, reliability, and productivity for both engineers and AI agents.
What You'll Do
Build and optimize large-scale training and reinforcement learning infrastructure while ensuring its correctness
Develop high-performance inference and serving systems
Design distribut
