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About the Role
We are seeking a Scientific Software Engineer to build and run the systems that connect our AI platform to physical laboratories around the world. You will shape the software layer of our closed-loop discovery workflow, where agents propose experiments, partner labs execute them, and results feed back into models. This role bridges lab automation and production engineering, requiring hands-on experience with scientific or lab automation and the engineering discipline to make integrations secure, reliable, and scalable.
Responsibilities
- Help shape how we connect to partner labs around the world, accounting for different levels of automation and AI-readiness.
- Design, build, and operate services that send experiment requests from AI agents and reliably bring results back.
- Build APIs and data models (e.g. FastAPI, Pydantic) for bidirectional lab-to-cloud data exchange.
- Integrate with lab instruments, robotic platforms, LIMS/ELN systems, and scheduling software, translating between disparate formats and CuspAI's data platform.
- Ensure integrations are reliable at scale through idempotency, retries, queueing, monitoring, and alerting across many partners and time zones.
- Assist with the technical onboarding of new lab partners, assessing their systems and setting up integrations quickly and repeatedly.
- Collaborate day-to-day with experimental materials scientists, optimisation experts, and engineers on the team, co-designing workflows and feeding lab realities back into platform design.
- Deploy and run containerized services on cloud infrastructure, with testing and CI/CD as standard.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with lab automation, self-driving labs, or other scientific discovery workflows (e.g., 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 that integrate with external parties (APIs, message queues, event-driven architectures, data contracts).
- Solid understanding of security practices for externally facing systems.
- A collaborative mindset; enjoy working in a small, multidisciplinary team and can communicate clearly with experimental scientists, optimisation experts, and engineers.
Skills
- FastAPI
- Pydantic
- Python
- API design
- Distributed systems
- APIs
- Message queues
- Event-driven architectures
- Data contracts
- Security practices
- Lab automation
- Self-driving labs
- Scientific discovery workflows
- Instrument control
- Robotic platforms
- High-throughput experimentation data pipelines
- Backend services
- Containerized services
- Cloud infrastructure
- Testing
- CI/CD
- Workflow orchestration
- Active learning loops
- Infrastructure as code
- Observability tooling
- Security
- Compliance
- Partner IP handling
- Confidential data handling
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Production experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Equity in CuspAI
- 28 days holiday (DE, NL, UK) or 21 days holiday (JP, SG, US), in addition to local public holidays
- 26 weeks (primary caregiver) and 12 weeks (secondary caregiver) parental leave at full pay
- Professional development budget
About the Company
- CuspAI is a frontier AI company focused on solving the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress.
- We harness AI to unlock trillion-dollar materials breakthroughs in months, not millennia.
- Our founding team consists of world-class researchers in AI, chemistry, and engineering.
- We are addressing critical challenges in energy, clean water, the future of compute, and carbon capture.
- We are building a 'search engine' for next-generation materials.
- We invite you to be part of a diverse, innovative team at the intersection of AI and materials science.
- We aim to create impactful partnerships that drive innovation, scalability, and industry collaboration.
- We are on the cusp of the on-demand materials era.
Equal Opportunity
- CuspAI is an equal opportunities employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
- We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and value the unique perspectives and contributions that diversity brings to our team.
- Please let us know if you require any specific adjustments during or after the interview process. We will do everything we can within reason to accommodate.