Scientific Software Engineer (Lab Integration)

The role

You will build and run systems that connect an AI platform to physical laboratories. You will design, build, and operate services to send experiment requests and bring results back. This role involves integrating with lab instruments, robotic platforms, and LIMS/ELN systems.

What you will do

• Design, build and operate services that send experiment requests and bring results back.
• Build APIs and data models for bidirectional lab-to-cloud data exchange.
• Integrate with lab instruments, robotic platforms, LIMS/ELN systems and scheduling software.
• Make integrations reliable at scale using idempotency, retries, queueing, monitoring and alerting.
• Assist with technical onboarding of new lab partners.
• Collaborate with materials scientists, optimisation experts and engineers to co-design workflows.
• Deploy and run containerised services on cloud infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• 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 or event-driven architectures, and data contracts.
• Solid understanding of security practices for externally facing systems.
• A collaborative mindset.

Nice to have

• Experimental lab experience in materials science, chemistry or chemical engineering.
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g. Dagster, Flyte, Prefect) or active learning loops.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and observability tooling.
• Security or compliance experience or handling partner IP and confidential data.
• Experience working across distributed teams and multiple time zones.

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.