Application Scientist
CuspAI is an AI-for-science company developing an AI platform for targeted materials discovery.
Funding history
About CuspAI
CuspAI combines generative AI, high-fidelity simulation, synthesis planning, and laboratory validation to develop novel materials for applications including semiconductors, energy, water purification, and climate technology.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead scientific delivery for partner projects from initial scoping through results. You will apply simulation, machine learning, optimisation, data-driven methods, or experiments to solve materials-discovery problems. You will translate between experimental, computational, and machine-learning teams; design and validate discovery campaigns; maintain reliable data and workflows; communicate results to partners; and help improve platform tools through partner feedback.
Requirements
- PhD in chemistry, materials science, physics, chemical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
- Hands-on expertise in atomistic simulation, experimental materials or chemistry, or materials or cheminformatics
- Track record in at least one relevant application area
- Python for data handling, analysis, automation, or modelling
- Git version control
- Ability to communicate with experimental and computational scientists and translate between them
Responsibilities
- Lead partner projects from scoping through delivery
- Write technical scopes defining objectives, deliverables, success criteria, and timelines
- Prepare technical reports and presentations for partners and internal teams
- Apply and extend the platform using simulation, machine learning, optimisation, data-driven methods, or experiments
- Design and steer agentic and closed-loop discovery campaigns with partner laboratories
- Assess and validate models, simulations, and data against experiments
- Translate platform recommendations into executable experimental plans
- Maintain clean, structured, and consistent partner and workflow data
- Collaborate with partner laboratories and visit sites at key project stages
- Build and automate scalable, reliable platform workflows
- Relay partner feedback to improve tools and workflows
- Contribute to scientific direction and stay current with advances in the field
Benefits
- Equity in CuspAI
- 28 days of holiday in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, or 21 days in Japan, Singapore, and the US, plus local public holidays
- 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for secondary caregivers