Head of AI Research

Overview

About the Role We are a seed-stage deeptech company building an advanced materials acceleration platform at the intersection of physics-informed AI, robotics, and autonomous experimentation, with a focus on the energy sector and beyond. Our mission: compress decades of materials discovery into years by connecting frontier machine learning with real-world experimental pipelines. We are looking for

What you'll do

• About the Role We are a seed-stage deeptech company building an advanced materials acceleration platform at the intersection of physics-informed AI, robotics, and autonomous experimentation, with a focus on the energy sector and beyond.
• Our mission: compress decades of materials discovery into years by connecting frontier machine learning with real-world experimental pipelines.
• We are looking for a Head of AI Research to define and lead our AI-for-Materials research agenda.
• This is a foundational leadership role for someone who wants to shape not just a team, but a new scientific discipline, inventing the representations, learning paradigms, and evaluation frameworks that will underpin the next generation of materials discovery.
• What You'll Do Define a clear research vision and roadmap for AI-native materials discovery, setting thesis-level bets and identifying high-impact research directions.
• Identify where existing ML paradigms fall short for physical matter and specify what must be built from the ground up.
• Lead development of a Materials World Model that integrates experiments, simulations, and learned representations across scales.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Programs, Hardware & Automation, and Software Architecture teams to embed research into end-to-end discovery loops.
• Ensure all models and pipelines are grounded in physical reality and continuously validated against experimental feedback, not just data-driven patterns.
• Balance long-horizon research ambitions with near-term deliverables and scientific rigor.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Engineering.
• Experience level: 7+ yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Berlin.

Skills