Cuspai

Materials Knowledge Architect

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: Delaware.
Location as listed by the employer: “Cambridge, UK; Amsterdam, NL; Berlin, DE; Cambridge, UK; United Kingdom; Netherlands; Germany; United Kingdom”
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About this role

Cuspai is hiring for a Materials Knowledge Architect role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing data models and schemas for complex scientific or technical domains, and curating high-quality data assets from them.
  • Demonstrable experience ingesting, integrating and harmonising data from multiple external sources or partners, each with differing formats, schemas and quality levels.
  • PhD in Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Computational Chemistry or a related discipline, or equivalent experience in scientific research.
  • Expert in data representation, ontologies, data modelling and the curation of high-quality, interoperable data assets.
  • Experience working with a broad range of data types used in materials discovery — especially experimental and characterization data (e.g. synthesis parameters and processing conditions, XRD patterns, spectroscopy, adsor…
  • Deep knowledge of materials and chemical data sources spanning both experimental and computational domains (e.g. ICSD, the Cambridge Structural Database, NOMAD, Materials Project), and of the practical challenges of har…
  • Working knowledge of Python and SQL with experience building data pipelines for experimental and computational data, including schema/data-model design (e.g. Pydantic, JSON Schema) and familiarity with materials and dat…
  • Firsthand experience with how experimental data is actually produced — lab workflows, instrument quirks, incomplete metadata — and pragmatic strategies for modeling it faithfully rather than forcing it into idealized sc…

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