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CuspAI is an AI-driven materials discovery company using machine learning to accelerate the development of next-generation materials for semiconductors, energy, clean water, carbon capture, and advanced computing applications.
You will serve as a Technical Program Manager within the AI Materials Foundry, a global partner ecosystem that drives adoption of CuspAI's materials platform. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant cross-functional influence across AI, chemistry, and engineering teams.
Key responsibilities include:
**Program Leadership & Research Integration**
- Lead AI Materials Foundry programs across a global network of industry and research partners focused on materials discovery
- Translate scientific and business objectives into executable plans, aligning commercial, research, and engineering teams
- Own planning and delivery of Foundry initiatives and events, managing resources, dependencies, timelines, and risks
**Partner & Customer Collaboration**
- Serve as primary program contact for external partners during project execution and delivery
- Facilitate technical discussions between internal teams and external stakeholders
- Drive project scoping and proposal writing with partnerships and technical teams
- Manage joint development initiatives and coordinate customer pilot programs from conception through deployment
**Process & Operations**
- Work with the global TPM team to refine scalable processes
- Implement metrics for tracking milestones and program outcomes
- Coordinate compliance and regulatory considerations
- Support IP and scientific publication processes
- Foster interdisciplinary team culture and manage organizational scaling
- Use data to drive continuous improvements
The role is based in either the London/Cambridge or SF Bay Area office with an expectation of three days per week in-office, plus regular travel for internal and external collaboration.
**Requirements:**
- Strong background in Natural Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI/ML, or related field
- Proven experience as a Technical Program Manager in a scientific or AI/ML environment
- Ability to navigate high ambiguity and maintain cohesion across multi-disciplinary teams (AI, Chemistry, Engineering)
- Excellent stakeholder management skills; ability to influence both highly technical researchers and non-technical partners at varying seniority levels
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving with comfort navigating ambiguity and changing priorities
- Strong leadership and facilitation capabilities for cross-functional teams
- Experience managing technical external-facing customer projects
**Bonus qualifications:**
- Practical experience or academic background in Materials Science, Experimental Chemistry, or Physics
- Experience managing joint ecosystem programs with major hardware tech companies (NVIDIA, Meta)
- Professional background in semiconductor foundry, design firm, or electronics materials supplier
- Technical fluency in model architecture, cloud infrastructure, and software development lifecycle
- Experience with molecular simulation software, quantum chemistry packages, or cheminformatics tools
