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Research Scientist, Scaling RL

Periodic Labs · Montreal

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In brief

Periodic Labs is hiring: Research Scientist, Scaling RL in Montreal.

Duties

  • We're training frontier models to develop deep scientific knowledge and reasoning for scientific tasks.
  • You’ll study how RL scales with training compute, develop better algorithms, and take ideas from controlled experiments to our largest runs like…
  • Design experiments to understand how RL performance scales with compute, model size, data, and reward quality, building on work such as ScaleRL…
  • Develop better RL algorithms, spanning policy optimization, advantage estimation, exploration, and credit assignment for long-horizon RL tasks
  • Build adaptive sampling and curriculum methods that adjust task difficulty, problem selection, and the number of rollouts as models improve

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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…

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