Process Technician, Thin Films
About Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs is building an autonomous laboratory for high-throughput materials discovery. Our work combines advanced chemistry, robotics, automation, AI, and materials science to accelerate scientific discovery while maintaining high standards of environmental, health, and process safety.
About the Role
Periodic Labs is building AI that can both simulate science and verify its own predictions. Verifying those predictions experimentally requires a lab that runs reliably - qualified tools, samples prepared to spec, and data logged the same way every time.
We are standing up a dedicated thin-film lab in Menlo Park with a suite of deposition and characterization tools, and are hiring a Process Technician to own day-to-day tool operation, sample preparation, and first-line maintenance. This is the role that keeps throughput high and variance low: you run the SOPs, you cut and prep the coupons, you keep the tools in spec, and you partner with process engineers when an experiment calls for something outside the standard flow.
This is a contract position, on-site, with the possibility of extension or conversion as the lab scales.
What You'll Do
Run deposition tools to SOP. Execute
