# Software 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: 2026-02-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/periodic-labs/1d6ade4f-ae4c-4bde-baf7-82c401063e42
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/periodic-labs-software-engineer/

## About the role

We’re hiring software engineers to build the backend and distributed systems that form the software backbone of an AI-native physical science lab. These systems turn scientific intent into reliable execution: scheduling large simulation workloads, orchestrating experiments and shared equipment, and connecting instruments and automation to the rest of our software.

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of building production backend or distributed systems
- Experience with asynchronous or long-running work, such as batch jobs, workflow orchestration, data pipelines, schedulers, or shared-resource systems
- The ability to reason clearly about concurrency, idempotency, partial failures, consistency, and resource contention
- Experience designing maintainable APIs and data models for complex systems
- Strong debugging skills across services, infrastructure, dependencies, and data
- Comfort working with technical collaborators to turn ambiguous needs into reliable systems

Tags: Science