Foundation Models Engineer, Materials AI at Scale

CuspAI; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in CuspAI

Competitive salary

28 days holiday (DE, NL, UK) or 21 in

Parental leave

Professional development budget

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Job summary

CuspAI is seeking Research Engineers to train and evaluate foundation models for materials discovery, focusing on representation learning over crystal structures and properties, LLM fine-tuning, and data-driven evaluation. You will own models end-to-end from data to deployment in a collaborative team.

The role spans training at scale, collaboration with chemists and materials scientists, and contributing to sustainable, world-changing challenges.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills and a track record of building complex, high-performance systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience training or evaluating large models in a distributed setting.
• Deep interest in AI and materials science, with willingness to learn the scientific vocabulary.
• Experience with representation learning and computer vision, e.g., self-supervised pre-training or embeddings.
• Exposure to multi-modal training and combining modalities.

Responsibilities

• Design and run experiments: scaling studies, ablations and evaluations to settle modelling choices.
• Lead parallel training of multi-modal foundation models at scale across hundreds of GPUs.
• Apply software engineering best practices to ensure scalable, reliable systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed training

Representation learning

Multimodal training

Materials science interest

Scale learning depth

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/ML or related field

Job description

CuspAI is seeking Research Engineers to train and evaluate foundation models for materials discovery, focusing on representation learning over crystal structures and properties, LLM fine-tuning, and data-driven evaluation. You will own models end-to-end from data to deployment in a collaborative team.

The role spans training at scale, collaboration with chemists and materials scientists, and contributing to sustainable, world-changing challenges.