9 hours ago
Berlin, Germany +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate services connecting AI-generated experiment requests with partner laboratories and returning experimental results.
- Build APIs and data models using tools such as FastAPI and Pydantic for bidirectional lab-to-cloud data exchange.
- Integrate laboratory instruments, robotic platforms, LIMS/ELN systems, and scheduling software with CuspAI’s data platform.
- Improve reliability at scale through idempotency, retries, queueing, monitoring, and alerting across partners and time zones.
- Assist with technical onboarding by assessing partner systems and repeatedly setting up integrations.
- Collaborate with materials scientists, optimization experts, ML engineers, and software engineers to co-design experimental workflows.
- Deploy and run containerized cloud services with testing and CI/CD practices.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with lab automation, self-driving labs, instrument control, robotic platforms, or high-throughput experimentation data pipelines.
- Strong software engineering background with production experience building and operating backend services.
- Deep fluency in Python, including typed, well-tested code and API design.
- Experience designing distributed systems involving APIs, message queues or event-driven architectures, and data contracts.
- Solid understanding of security practices for externally facing systems.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate clearly in a small, multidisciplinary team.
- Experimental lab experience in materials science, chemistry, or chemical engineering is a bonus.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Dagster, Flyte, or Prefect, or with active learning loops, is a bonus.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, observability tooling, security or compliance, partner intellectual property, confidential data, or distributed teams is a bonus.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity in CuspAI.
- 28 days of holiday in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, or 21 days in Japan, Singapore, and the US, in addition to local public holidays.
- 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Professional development budget.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers and engineers across AI research, computational chemistry, and experimental science.
About CuspAI
CuspAI builds an AI-driven materials discovery platform that helps R&D teams in chemicals, energy, and manufacturing design and evaluate novel molecules and materials. The company offers software and models accessed via cloud APIs and collaborations to prioritize candidates, guide experiments, and shorten lab cycles. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Cambridge, it is a privately held startup focused on applying generative and physics-informed AI to sustainability and next‑generation materials problems.