Data Engineer

About the Company

CuspAI is a frontier AI company on a mission to solve the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress. We are harnessing AI to unlock trillion-dollar materials breakthroughs in months, not millennia, working on challenges including energy, clean water, the future of compute, and carbon capture.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust data pipelines for materials science datasets, experimental results, and computational chemistry outputs
• Develop processes to integrate diverse data sources including materials databases, literature, patent filings, and laboratory instruments
• Create automated workflows for processing crystallographic data, molecular structures, and materials properties
• Build scalable systems to handle high-throughput computational chemistry calculations and experimental data
• Partner with scientific teams to implement automated quality checks and standardization protocols
• Work with ML researchers to understand data requirements for model training and inference
• Integrate with laboratory automation systems and computational chemistry software

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering roles
• High proficiency in Python and databases
• Experience with large-scale data processing
• Advanced use of workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or Flyte)
• Solid experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD practices
• Experience handling large/complex datasets
• Understanding of DevOps practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data from scientific computing (simulations or experiments)
• Knowledge of machine learning data requirements and MLOps practices
• Academic background in Materials Science, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering
• Understanding of crystallography and computational chemistry concepts

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in CuspAI
• 28 days holiday (UK)
• 'Gold Standard' parental leave: 26 weeks primary/12 weeks secondary at full pay
• Professional development budget