# ML Systems Engineer at Periodic Labs

- Company: Periodic Labs
- What the company does: From bits to atoms. Backed by Accel, Lightspeed and a16z.
- Company website: https://periodic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Menlo Park, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/periodic-labs/d9180228-c113-4d5f-a4d6-793994e50b7c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/periodic-labs-ml-systems-engineer/

## 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 they're looking for

- Strong systems programming and performance engineering skills
- Experience building high-performance ML infrastructure at scale
- Ability to own complex technical problems end-to-end
- Strong coding ability and engineering judgment, including the ability to work effectively with AI agents to design, implement, test, and debug complex systems
- High ownership, fast execution, and a passion for pushing the frontier of AI systems and accelerating scientific discovery

Tags: Engineering