Foundry Technical Program Manager Materials Foundry
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CuspAI is an AI-for-science company developing an AI platform for targeted materials discovery.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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
Change ManagementCheminformaticsChemistryCloud InfrastructureComplianceComputer ScienceCustomer PilotIntellectual PropertyMachine LearningMaterials ScienceModel ArchitectureMolecular SimulationNatural SciencePhysicsProgram ManagementProject ScopingProposal WritingQuantum ChemistryRegulationRisk ManagementSoftware Development LifecycleSoftware EngineeringStakeholder Management
About the Role
You will lead AI Materials Foundry programmes and external technical projects from scoping through deployment. You will translate scientific and business objectives into delivery plans, coordinate resources and risks, facilitate stakeholder discussions, track outcomes, and improve scalable processes.
Requirements
- Background in Natural Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field
- Experience as a Technical Program Manager in a scientific or AI/ML environment
- Ability to work through ambiguity across multidisciplinary AI, chemistry, and engineering teams
- Stakeholder management skills for highly technical researchers and non-technical partners
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
- Leadership and facilitation capabilities for cross-functional teams
- Experience managing technical external-facing customer projects
Responsibilities
- Lead AI Materials Foundry programmes across industry and lab partners
- Translate scientific and business objectives into executable plans
- Own planning and delivery of Foundry initiatives and events
- Manage resources, dependencies, timelines, and risks
- Lead technical programmes with industry partners and research institutions
- Facilitate technical discussions between internal teams and external stakeholders
- Drive project scoping and proposal writing
- Manage joint development initiatives and customer pilot programmes through deployment
- Refine scalable programme processes
- Implement metrics for milestones and programme outcomes
- Coordinate compliance and regulatory considerations
- Support intellectual property and scientific publication processes
- Lead change management and improve internal and customer-facing processes using data
Benefits
- Equity in CuspAI
- 28 days holiday in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK or 21 days holiday in Japan, Singapore, and the US, plus local public holidays
- 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Professional development budget
