Software Engineer
Periodic Labs8 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the platform that schedules instruments, manages workflows, and tracks samples throughout automated synthesis.
- Build robust multi-step workflow orchestration with DAG execution, dependency resolution, and retry logic.
- Design scheduling systems handling contention, prioritization, batching, and hard and soft resource constraints.
- Ensure complete, attributable data provenance for samples, actions, and results.
- Build React interfaces showing experiment state, queue status, and system health.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, lab engineering, and scientists to improve reliability and eliminate operational bottlenecks.
Requirements
- Experience building production MES, LIMS, ERP, or process control systems where correctness is critical.
- Experience with workflow and DAG orchestration, concurrent systems, resource scheduling, contention handling, and audit or provenance data modeling.
- Full-stack development experience with Python, React, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience with scheduling algorithms for shared resources and with physical lab, manufacturing, or materials environments is valuable.
- Experience with powder synthesis, ceramics, materials manufacturing, laboratory instrumentation protocols, event sourcing, or CQRS is especially valuable.
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About Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs builds AI scientists and autonomous laboratory systems that design experiments, simulate physical processes, and verify predictions. Its software and hardware platforms serve industrial and academic R&D teams working on materials, chemistry, and other continuum-physics problems, offered as tools and services to accelerate discovery. The company is privately held, founded in 2025, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.