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24 openings with posted pay · Updated Nov 6, 2026

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Periodic Labs

24 matching openings with posted pay
1
Head of People

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Director

$350k–$450k / year
2
Computational Scientist, Structural & Thermal

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Senior

$250k–$350k / year
3
Computational Scientist, Differentiable Physics

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Senior

$250k–$350k / year
4
Product Engineer

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Senior

$250k–$350k / year
5
Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Materials Data

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Senior

$250k–$350k / year
6
Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Senior

$250k–$350k / year
7
Software Engineer

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Mid-Level

$250k–$350k / year
8
Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Midtraining

Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · Senior

$250k–$350k / year

Median base salary

$294k

24 openings with posted pay

Typical range

$250k–$300k

25th to 75th percentile

Across all 26,534 openings with posted pay, the median is $176k. Annual base salary. Equity and bonus excluded. Methodology

Top-paying companies

All openings · Median pay · 8+ openings each

1Aaru18 roles$353k
2Anthropic570 roles$345k
3Thinking Machines Lab47 roles$325k
4OpenAI654 roles$308k
5Simile8 roles$300k
6Goodfire17 roles$300k
7Periodic Labs24 roles$294k
8World Labs8 roles$288k
9MatX27 roles$288k
10Wispr Flow30 roles$285k
11Wayve73 roles$285k
12Oxide14 roles$275k
13Generalist AI18 roles$275k
14Suno62 roles$270k
15Polymarket36 roles$270k

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Methodology

All figures come from salary ranges companies publish on their own job postings, pulled from their applicant tracking systems hourly. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

Pay in other currencies is converted at fixed recent exchange rates. Hourly, weekly, and monthly pay is annualized. Everything is base salary only. Equity and bonus are excluded because postings rarely quantify them.

Stats are medians and quartiles of each posting's range midpoint, weighted by open roles. Groups with fewer than 30 openings (8 for a single company) are not shown.

Numbers reflect currently open roles, not historical offers. About 57% of tracked openings post pay. US pay-transparency laws drive most disclosure, so coverage skews to US roles. Explore hiring patterns in the hiring report.

Frequently asked questions

What is the median salary at companies building the future?
The median posted base salary is $176k per year, across 26,534 live openings at 528 companies. The middle half of postings falls between $135k and $225k.
Which startup roles pay the most?
AI & Autonomy roles lead at a $234k median, followed by Software & Data ($215k) and Infrastructure, IT, & Security ($202k), based on the ranges companies post on live openings.
Which companies building the future pay the highest salaries?
Aaru tops the list with a $353k median posted base salary, ahead of Anthropic ($345k) and Thinking Machines Lab ($325k), among companies with eight or more openings that post pay.
Do startup job postings include salary?
About 57% of the openings BuildList tracks post a pay range. Disclosure is highest at US companies covered by pay-transparency laws, so coverage skews to US roles.
Where does this salary data come from?
From the pay ranges companies publish on their own job postings, pulled hourly from their applicant tracking systems and normalized to annual base salary. Equity and bonus are excluded. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

These numbers come from 26,534 live openings. Browse the roles behind them.