Environmental Health and Safety

About the role

Periodic Labs is building an AI that can simulate science and verify its own predictions - training on the full scientific method. Central to that mission is a high-throughput experimental materials science lab that handles hazardous chemistries, high-pressure and high-temperature processes, air-sensitive synthesis, toxic gas exposure risks, and an expanding suite of thin-film deposition tools including PVD, PLD and the complexity of what we run overnight and autonomously is increasing every month. We believe EHS is integral to this ambition, not a compliance function bolted on after the fact, but a core design discipline that makes autonomous science possible. This EHS role and the person will build our safety architecture, defining permitting strategy, designing life safety systems, conducting process hazard analyses, and ultimately training our AI to reason about risk during experimental planning and execution.