AI-Driven Lab Integration Engineer

CuspAI; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in CuspAI

28 days holiday (UK)

Professional development budget

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Impactful work in materials science

Job summary

CuspAI in Cambridge, UK, is seeking a Scientific Software Engineer to connect our AI platform with laboratories worldwide. You will shape the software layer of our closed-loop discovery workflow: agents propose experiments, partner labs execute them, and results feed back into models to guide the next steps.

This role sits between lab automation and production engineering. You will design APIs, build scalable integrations with lab instruments, and ensure secure, reliable data exchange across

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with lab automation or self-driving labs.
• Strong backend software engineering experience.
• Deep fluency in Python, with typed, well-tested code and API design.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services to connect AI agents with partner labs.
• Develop APIs and data models for bidirectional lab-to-cloud exchange.
• Integrate with lab instruments, robotic platforms, LIMS/ELN systems and scheduling software.
• Ensure reliability at scale: idempotency, retries, queues, monitoring and alerts.
• Onboard new lab partners and accelerate integrations.

Skills

Lab automation

Software engineering

Python

Distributed systems

Security best practices

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

Job description

CuspAI in Cambridge, UK, is seeking a Scientific Software Engineer to connect our AI platform with laboratories worldwide. You will shape the software layer of our closed-loop discovery workflow: agents propose experiments, partner labs execute them, and results feed back into models to guide the next steps.

This role sits between lab automation and production engineering. You will design APIs, build scalable integrations with lab instruments, and ensure secure, reliable data exchange across