Data Engineer
Job description
A Data Engineer role at CuspAI to own, design, develop, test, secure, and deploy data-rich tools, services, and web applications. The role builds foundational data systems and platforms enabling materials scientists, ML engineers, and partners to collaborate on datasets at scale.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Own the full software lifecycle of data-rich tools, services, and web applications from design through to deployment and security
- Build scalable data ingestion, processing, and cleaning pipelines to handle both structured and complex unstructured data
- Develop data-intensive Python APIs and intuitive web applications/UIs that allow team members and partners to query, export, analyse, and visualise data
- Implement robust orchestration systems to automate pipeline execution and manage data flows
- Maintain strict standards for data privacy, governance, and security across all data architectures
- Deploy and manage containerised data services using basic infrastructure tooling
What we're looking for
- Software engineering background with a strong focus on data management
- Deep fluency in Python
- Hands-on experience with at least two database paradigms (e.g., Relational, Document, Columnar, Key-Value)
- Proven track record writing data-rich Python APIs and surfacing data through web applications with a UI
- Experience working with complex unstructured data, large-scale datasets, and implementing data privacy standards
- Experience with at least one modern orchestration framework (e.g., Dagster, Flyte, Prefect, Ray)
- Fundamental infrastructure experience with basic Docker and Kubernetes
Nice to have
- Experience working with geographically distributed data
- Experience with modern data lakehouse / warehouse technologies (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi)
- Prior experience collaborating with scientists, domain experts, or ML teams
Benefits
- A competitive salary
- Equity in CuspAI
- 28 days holiday (DE, NL, UK) or 21 days holiday (JP, SG, US), in addition to local public holidays
- 'Gold Standard' parental leave: 26 weeks (primary caregiver) and 12 weeks (secondary caregiver) at full pay
- Professional development budget
- Solve meaningful problems
- True interdisciplinary teamwork
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About CuspAI
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. Our founding team is the most cited in the world, comprised of world-class researchers in AI, chemistry and engineering. We are working on some of the hardest and most important challenges including energy, clean water, the future of compute, and carbon capture.
Mission
To solve the breakthrough materials needed to power human progress by harnessing AI to unlock trillion-dollar materials breakthroughs in months, not millennia
Key facts
- Founding team is the most cited in the world, comprised of world-class researchers in AI, chemistry and engineering
- Working on challenges including energy, clean water, the future of compute, and carbon capture
- Building a 'search engine' for next-generation materials
What they value
- Diverse and inclusive workplace
- Collaboration
- Impact and growth