Platform Engineer

CuspAI is an AI-for-science company developing an AI platform for targeted materials discovery.

Series BRecently funded
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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.

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Skills

About the Role

You will design and operate a Kubernetes-based ML platform for training, evaluating, and deploying models. You will build MLOps tooling, distributed-training infrastructure, deployment automation, reliability systems, configuration management, and cost-optimization tools.

Requirements

  • Deep experience building and maintaining ML infrastructure
  • Experience with Kubernetes and multi-cloud ML workloads across AWS, GCP, and neoclouds
  • Strong Python and/or Go programming skills
  • Expert Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, Helm, Kapitan, and GitOps
  • Experience operating distributed ML platforms for JAX and/or PyTorch
  • Experience managing GPU clusters and performance optimization
  • Software engineering or regular coding experience

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a cloud-native Kubernetes ML platform
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, model registries, experiment tracking, and deployment automation
  • Build distributed ML training infrastructure across GPUs
  • Ensure platform uptime through monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery
  • Manage multi-environment Kubernetes configurations with Kapitan
  • Optimize cloud resource use and computational throughput
  • Create tools that simplify experiment-to-production workflows
  • Collaborate on infrastructure requirements

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 28 days holiday in DE, NL, and UK or 21 days holiday in JP, SG, and US, plus local public holidays
  • 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
  • Professional development budget