Scientific Product Manager

The role

A Scientific Product Manager will bring partner labs and their experimental workflows onto the CuspAI platform. You will work with materials scientists, ML researchers, and platform engineers to translate lab needs into technical requirements.

What you will do

• Shape and prioritise the roadmap for experimental data, protocols and campaigns
• Write requirements, specifications and acceptance criteria for engineers
• Work with the data team on underlying data models and provenance
• Lead technical discovery with partner labs to map workflows, instruments, sample logic and data systems
• Own onboarding for partner labs from scoping to the first closed-loop campaign
• Act as the main scientific counterpart for partner labs
• Represent the product in partner meetings, workshops and conferences
• Work with ML researchers to design optimisation campaigns
• Define how platform-driven campaigns are validated

Required qualifications

• PhD in Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering or a related experimental discipline, or equivalent experience in scientific research
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput or automated experimentation in industry, a national lab or research institute, or academia
• Proven track record of translating scientific or process needs into requirements for engineers, software teams or automation vendors
• Firsthand understanding of how experimental data is produced and where it fails
• Depth in at least one materials domain (e.g. semiconductors and thin films, energy materials, polymers, or separations and surfaces)
• Working knowledge of Python for data handling and analysis
• Comfortable working with APIs and data schemas
• Strong communicator and a proven collaborator

Nice to have

• Direct experience with closed-loop optimisation in an automated setting
• Experience with research data management, LIMS/ELN systems, FAIR data or metadata schemas
• Familiarity with lab data standards (e.g. SiLA 2, AnIML, Allotrope)
• Instrument integration experience
• Product or project management experience
• Experience working in industry at a materials, chemicals, energy or deep-tech company
• Experience coordinating work across multiple labs, sites or countries

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity in CuspAI
• 28 days holiday (DE, NL, UK) or 21 days holiday (JP, SG, US), in addition to local public holidays
• 26 weeks parental leave for primary caregiver at full pay
• 12 weeks parental leave for secondary caregiver at full pay
• Professional development budget

About the company

CuspAI is a frontier AI company on a mission to solve the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress. The founding team is comprised of researchers in AI, chemistry and engineering.