Scientific Developer Relations Manager

CuspAI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

CuspAI is a frontier AI company focused on accelerating the discovery of breakthrough materials for human progress. They leverage AI to unlock materials innovations in months instead of millennia, addressing critical areas like energy, clean water, compute, and carbon capture. CuspAI seeks individuals for a diverse, innovative team at the intersection of AI and materials science to create impactful partnerships and drive industry collaboration.

The company is experiencing rapid global growth and is looking for a Scientific Developer Relations Manager to provide deep scientific and technical expertise to their growing ecosystem of partners. This role is crucial for building the technical enablement and scientific advisory framework to accelerate the adoption of CuspAI's AI platform among enterprise and research partners, which is essential for bringing next-generation semiconductor and advanced materials to market. The initial focus will be on collaborating with the Foundry Partnerships Manager to engage technology and industry partners, translating complex materials science requirements into actionable platform solutions.

Requirements

• Genuine, explicit interest in how frontier AI can revolutionize materials science and a passion for bringing sustainable, impactful technologies to humanity.
• Strong academic background or equivalent professional experience in Materials Science, Chemistry, Physics, or Electrical Engineering, enabling fluent peer-level conversation with world-class scientists.
• Hands-on experience with computational chemistry tools, molecular simulation software, or Python-based data science workflows (e.g., PyTorch, ASE, RDKit).
• Proven track record in developer relations, technical partner engineering, or application science, ideally within a high-growth startup, deep-tech environment, or advanced materials company.
• Confident, charismatic technical communicator skilled at translating abstract scientific concepts and complex AI platform workflows into clear, actionable advice for a technical audience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing joint developer or research ecosystem programs alongside major hardware tech giants.
• Direct professional background working within a semiconductor foundry, design firm, or electronics materials supplier.
• Fluency in a second language relevant to global hubs (e.g., Japanese, Korean, German).
• Understanding of crystallography, materials properties, and advanced machine learning models for property prediction.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical and scientific point of contact for technical leaders, computational chemists, and materials scientists within partner organizations.
• Provide expert, scientific-level advice and recommendations on how to leverage CuspAI's platform to solve complex materials challenges (e.g., semiconductor performance, carbon capture efficiency, or energy storage).
• Lead deep-dive technical workshops, code-alongs, and scientific demonstrations showcasing the platform's capabilities to expert external audiences.
• Build scalable developer resources, including highly technical documentation, sample notebooks, APIs, and reference guides tailored to advanced materials science workflows.
• Bridge the gap between high-level community events managed by the Partnerships team and the hands-on technical support required for successful partner Discovery Sprints.
• Collaborate closely with AI Research, Computational Chemistry, and Product teams to channel technical partner feedback into the development priorities of the agentic platform.
• Partner with Marketing and PR functions to co-author deep-tech case studies, whitepapers, and technical blog posts highlighting novel materials breakthroughs achieved via the platform.

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 (primary caregiver) and 12 weeks (secondary caregiver) of parental leave at full pay
• Professional development budget
• Opportunity to solve meaningful problems and see direct impact on advancing materials science and sustainability
• True interdisciplinary teamwork in a deeply collaborative environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior