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Labs Ecosystem Manager

CuspAI· Strategy & Partnerships
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Hybrid (West Coast, US), Hybrid (London, UK), Hybrid (Berlin, DE)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Role focused on growing and coordinating CuspAI’s global Labs Ecosystem, providing scientific-level guidance to uplevel lab networks, and enabling autonomous workflows across materials disciplines to accelerate AI-driven discovery.

Responsibilities

  • Design, coordinate, and host a comprehensive global lab engagement strategy including AI Materials Foundry lab members to support our Materials Discovery Programs.
  • Build scalable lab partner collaboration frameworks to accelerate laboratory campaigns and data-driven materials breakthroughs.
  • Contribute to market intelligence by identifying and assessing potential new laboratory partners.
  • Champion an automation mindset within partnerships, driving integration of experimental workflows with our informatics layer.
  • Manage engagement with global lab stakeholders and our Lab integration team to turn on more automated lab partners.
  • Act as the lab operational bridge for partnerships team, enterprise clients, and elite research institutions across Europe, the USA, and APAC.
  • Coordinate cross-functional timelines between partnership teams, lab integration teams, and scientists.
  • Partner closely with Director of Strategy & Operations, Lab Integration teams, and AI Materials Foundry team to align ecosystem activities with the roadmap.
  • Collaborate with internal Science teams to identify missing experimental lab capabilities for state-of-the-art materials discovery campaigns.
  • Collaborate with AI Research, Computational Chemistry, and Product teams to channel lab partner feedback into development priorities of the platform and lab connection platform.
  • Provide support to Lab Integration team in establishing data connections and data workflows with partner labs as needed.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experimental lab experience in Materials Science, Experimental Chemistry, or Semiconductor Foundries.
  • Existing network or knowledge of potential new lab partners in materials science/chemical industry or semiconductor industry, and academia.
  • Demonstrable automation mindset and experience optimizing or building interfaces for laboratory workflows and processes.
  • Proven ability to develop experimental campaigns based on defined objectives and data feedback in your area of expertise.
  • Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both deeply scientific/technical audiences (AI researchers) and hands-on experimental teams (Chemists).

Skills

Required:Lab ecosystem developmentPartnership managementAutomation mindset for lab workflowsCommunication of complex technical concepts

Benefits

  • A competitive salary
  • Equity in CuspAI
  • Time off to stay fresh: 28 days holiday (DE, NL, UK) or 21 days holiday (JP, SG, US) plus local public holidays
  • Gold Standard parental leave: 26 weeks (primary caregiver) and 12 weeks (secondary caregiver) at full pay
  • Professional development budget
  • Opportunities to work across AI research, computational chemistry, and experimental science
  • Supportive interdisciplinary teamwork
  • Diversity and inclusion commitments and interview adjustments on request
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About CuspAI

CuspAI is the frontier AI company on a mission to solve the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress.

CuspAI is the frontier AI company on a mission to solve the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress.

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