USD per year
IT Systems & Security Engineer
Location
Menlo Park, Remote
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Bits: LLMs, machine learning, infra, etc. About Periodic Labs We are an AI + physical sciences lab building state of the art models to make novel scientific discoveries. We are well funded and growing rapidly. Team members are owners who identity and solve problems without boundaries or bureaucracy. We eagerly learn new tools and new science to push forward our mission. About the Role You will lead, design, build, and operate Periodic Labs’ Security and IT. You’ll own identity, endpoint, network, and SaaS security. You’ll implement smooth, secure internal workflows and keep our researchers productive. You’ll write automation, integrate systems, and set high standards for security, reliability, and user experience. You’ll work closely with research, infra, and operations to ensure our environments including laptops, clusters, and science labs are secure, compliant, and fast. You might thrive in this role if you have experience with:
- Identity and SSO: Okta or Entra, SAML/OIDC/SCIM, robust RBAC and lifecycle automation
- Managing Endpoints at Scale: End-to-end ownership of macOS/Windows/Linux device lifecycle. Procurement, zero-touch provisioning,...
- Installing and operating Security on Devices: Deploy and maintain EDR (CrowdStrike / SentinelOne), full-disk encryption (FileVault/BitLocker), host firewall policies,...
- Automating Everything: Use IaC and scripting (Terraform/Terragrunt,...
- Managing Clouds: Managing IAM... AWS,... GCP,... Azure...
- SaaS... Google Workspace,... Slack,... GitHub...
- Secrets management: Managing KMS,... GitHub,... 1Password,... k8s secrets
- Zero-Trust... identity-aware access,... secure Wi-Fi,... DNS/certificates,... segmented networks.
Periodic Labs aims to create an AI scientist and autonomous laboratories for them to operate, focusing on accelerating science in the physical sciences. They build AI scientists and autonomous labs to generate high-quality experimental data, enabling new scientific discoveries and applications such as discovering higher-temperature superconductors and aiding semiconductor manufacturers.
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