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CuspAI is a frontier AI company developing breakthrough materials science solutions using AI to accelerate discovery cycles from millennia to months. The company focuses on solving critical challenges in energy, clean water, compute, and carbon capture through an AI-powered materials discovery platform.
As AI Labs Ecosystem Manager, you will build and scale CuspAI's global laboratory network to synthesize new materials discovered via the Cusp Platform. You will serve as the operational and technical bridge between CuspAI's platform teams, partner laboratories, and enterprise clients across Europe, the USA, and APAC.
Key responsibilities include:
**Ecosystem Cultivation & Community Activation**
- Design and coordinate a comprehensive global lab engagement strategy for AI Materials Foundry members and Materials Discovery Programs
- Build scalable collaboration frameworks to accelerate laboratory campaigns and drive data-driven materials breakthroughs
- Identify and assess potential new laboratory partners through market intelligence
- Champion automation mindset within partnerships, integrating experimental workflows with the informatics layer
**Cross-Cultural Operations & Project Management**
- Manage engagement with global lab stakeholders and Lab Integration teams to activate automated lab partners
- Act as the operational bridge for partnerships, enterprise clients, and research institutions across Europe, USA, and APAC
- Coordinate cross-functional timelines between partnership, lab integration, and science teams
**Interdisciplinary Collaboration**
- Partner with Director of Strategy & Operations, Lab Integration teams, and AI Materials Foundry team to align ecosystem activities with company roadmap
- Collaborate with internal Science teams to identify missing experimental capabilities for state-of-the-art materials discovery
- Work with AI Research, Computational Chemistry, and Product teams to channel lab partner feedback into platform development priorities
- Support Lab Integration team in establishing data connections and workflows with partner labs
The role is based in London, Berlin, or San Francisco with an expectation of three days per week in-office, depending on projects. Regular travel to partner sites and other locations is required.
**Requirements:**
- Hands-on experimental lab experience in Materials Science, Experimental Chemistry, or Semiconductor Foundries
- Existing network or knowledge of potential lab partners in materials science, chemical industry, semiconductor industry, or academia
- Demonstrable automation mindset with 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 to both AI researchers and hands-on experimental teams
**Bonus qualifications:**
- Experience with high-throughput experiments (HTE), robotics, and commercial laboratory automation systems
- Professional-level coding skills (e.g., Python) to automate data translation between laboratory and informatics systems and configure APIs
