Albert Invent

To lead the design, development, and optimization of high-scale search and discovery systems

leveraging deep expertise in OpenSearch. The Search Staff Engineer will enhance search

relevance, query performance, and indexing efficiency by utilizing OpenSearch’s full-text, vector

search, and analytics capabilities. This role focuses on building real-time search pipelines,

implementing advanced ranking models, and architecting distributed indexing solutions to

deliver a high-performance, scalable, and intelligent search experience.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop, and maintain a scalable OpenSearch-based search infrastructure for

high-traffic applications.

• Optimize indexing strategies, sharding, replication, and query execution to improve

search performance and reliability.

• Implement cross-cluster search, multi-tenant search solutions, and real-time search

capabilities.

• Ensure efficient log storage, retention policies, and lifecycle management in

OpenSearch.

• Monitor and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and

resilience.

• Design and implement real-time and batch indexing pipelines for structured and

unstructured data.

• Optimize schema design, field mappings, and tokenization strategies for improved

search performance.

• Manage custom analyzers, synonyms, stopwords, and stemming filters for multilingual

search.

• Ensure search infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including encryption,

access control, and audit logging.

• Optimize search for low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams to

ensure seamless platform delivery.

• Define and communicate a strategic roadmap for Search initiatives aligned with business

goals.

• Work closely with stakeholders to understand database requirements and provide

technical solutions.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in search engineering, with at least 3+ years of deep experience in

OpenSearch.

• Strong expertise in search indexing, relevance tuning, ranking algorithms, and query

parsing.

• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch configurations, APIs, shards, replicas, and

cluster scaling.

• Strong programming skills in Node.js and Python and experience with OpenSearch SDKs.

• Proficiency in REST APIs, OpenSearch DSL queries, and aggregation frameworks.

• Knowledge of observability, logging, and monitoring tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry,

Grafana).

• Experience managing OpenSearch clusters on AWS OpenSearch, Containers, or self-

hosted environments.

• Strong understanding of security best practices, role-based access control (RBAC),

encryption, and IAM.

• Familiarity with multi-region, distributed search architectures.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and

mitigating risks.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive consensus

among stakeholders.

The Software Engineer – SRE will be responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure that powers the Albert platform. This role focuses on automation, observability, and operational excellence to ensure seamless deployment, performance, and reliability of core platform services.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a passionate representative of the Albert product and brand.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and other stakeholders to plan and deliver core platform capabilities that enable scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Work with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on shared full-stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of all microservices.
• Design and deliver the mission-critical stack, focusing on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Take ownership of end-to-end performance and operability.
• Apply strong knowledge of automation and orchestration principles.
• Serve as the ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues not yet documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Troubleshoot and define mitigations using a deep understanding of service topology and dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in an SRE role focused on automation.
• Strong experience in Infrastructure as Code (IAC), preferably using Terraform.
• Proficiency in Python or Node.js, with experience designing RESTful APIs and working in microservices architecture.
• Solid expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and platform technologies including APIs, distributed systems, and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks, including centralized log management, metrics, and tracing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., CircleCI) and performance testing tools like K6.
• Passion for bringing automation and standardization to engineering operations.
• Ability to build high-performance APIs with low latency (<200ms).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, learning from peers and leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers and contribute to team growth, including participation in recruiting activities.

Good to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or reusable frameworks for engineering teams.
• Exposure to ML infrastructure or data engineering workflows.
• Experience working in compliance-heavy environments (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA).

Seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Engineer who will lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable cloud architectures, drive automation across the platform, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance cloud solutions aligned with business goals

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Architecture & Strategy
• Define and evolve the company’s cloud architecture, with AWS as the primary platform.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native and event-driven architectures to support product growth and enterprise demands.
• Create and scale up our platform for integrations with our enterprise customers (webhooks, data pipelines, connectors, batch ingestions, etc)
• Partner with engineering and product to convert custom solutions into productised capabilities.
• Security & Compliance Enablement
• Act as a foundational partner in building out the company’s security andcompliance functions.
• Help define cloud security architecture, policies, and controls to meet enterprise and customer requirements.
• Guide compliance teams on technical approaches to SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and GxP standards.
• Mentor engineers and security specialists on embedding secure-by-design and compliance-first practices.
• Customer & Solutions Enablement
• Work with Solutions Engineering and customers to design and validate complex deployments.
• Contribute to processes that productise custom implementations into scalable platform features.
• Leadership & Influence
• Serve as a technical thought leader across cloud, data, and security domains.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership (Product, Platform, TPM, Security) to align technical strategy with business goals.
• Act as an advisor to security and compliance teams during their growth, helping establish scalable practices and frameworks.
• Represent the company in customer and partner discussions as a trusted cloud and security subject matter expert.
• Data Platforms & Governance
• Provide guidance to the data engineering team on database architecture, storage design, and integration patterns.
• Advise on selection and optimisation of a wide variety of databases (relational, NoSQL, time-series, graph, analytical).
• Collaborate on data governance frameworks covering lifecycle management, retention, classification, and access controls.
• Partner with data and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment and strong data security practices.
• Developer Experience & DevOps
• Build and maintain tools, automation, and CI/CD pipelines that accelerate developer velocity.
• Promote best practices for infrastructure as code, containerisation, observability, and cost optimisation.
• Embed security, compliance, and reliability standards into the development lifecycle.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in cloud engineering or architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS and strong understanding of modern distributed application design (microservices, containers, event-driven architectures).
• Hands-on experience with a wide range of databases (SQL, NoSQL, analytical, and specialized systems).
• Strong foundation in data management and governance, including lifecycle and compliance.
• Experience supporting or helping build security and compliance functions within a SaaS or enterprise environment.
• Expertise with IaC (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong foundation in networking, security, observability, and performance engineering.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to partner across technical and business functions.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to Azure, GCP, or other cloud environments.
• Experience working in SaaS/PaaS at enterprise scale.
• Background in product engineering, with experience shaping technical direction in collaboration with product teams.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and GxP).

About Albert Invent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster.

Why Join Albert Invent

• Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
• The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.
• You will enjoy the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI tools that accelerate real- world R&D and solve global challenges from sustainability to advanced manufacturing while growing your careers in a high-energy environment.

Senior Staff Engineer will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction and long-term architecture of the Albert platform. This role is responsible for driving scalable, reliable, and high- impact software engineering that align with business goals and customer needs. The position requires a strong balance of technical depth, execution excellence, and cross-functional leadership to accelerate product development while maintaining high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Drive the architectural vision for core product areas across the Albert platform.
• Own the technical roadmap for major product features, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term platform evolution.
• Lead the design and development of highly reliable, performant, and scalable applications using modern tech stack.
• Establish durable engineering patterns and frameworks that enable product teams to move quickly with high confidence.
• Provide mentorship to Staff, Senior, and Mid-level engineers to uplevel engineering capabilities across product teams

Execution Excellence

• Translate business goals and customer needs into scalable technical designs that accelerate product development.
• Solve complex, multi-system issues and guide teams through debugging, incident response, and performance improvements.
• Lead design reviews, define coding standards, and elevate system observability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive technical decisions involving tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scalability, bringing clarity to ambiguity.
• Identify, prioritise, and drive down technical debt that impacts product velocity and quality

Cross-Team Influence & Collaboration

• Work with senior technical leadership to establish and uphold company-wide architectural standards and engineering practices.
• Partner closely with PMs to shape feature requirements, estimate complexity, and define engineering milestones.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, ML, and infra teams to develop cohesive, well-integrated product experiences

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in senior technical leadership roles supporting product-oriented teams.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end product development at scale — from concept through production rollout.
• Deep expertise in modern backend technologies, including Node.js, RESTful API design, backend services, and distributed system fundamentals, with strong proficiency across multiple programming languages.
• Strong understanding of product architecture patterns: domain-driven design, modular monoliths, micro-services, event-driven systems.
• Proficiency with SQL & NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.).
• Significant experience with AWS services and modern cloud architectures.
• Strong product intuition — ability to understand user needs, evaluate tradeoffs, and craft solutions that balance speed with quality.
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and organisational influence skills

Good to Have:

• Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React.
• Experience building AI- or ML-driven user experiences.
• Experience scaling a product engineering team from 1 to N

About Albert Invent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster.

Why Join Albert Invent

• Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
• The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.

To design, build, and optimize scalable data infrastructure and pipelines that enable efficient

data collection, transformation, and analysis across the organization. The Senior Data Engineer

will play a key role in driving data architecture decisions, ensuring data quality and availability,

and empowering analytics, product, and engineering teams with reliable, well-structured data to

support business growth and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring high performance,

scalability, and reliability.

• Collaborate with the API team and Data Science team to build robust data pipelines and

automations.

• Work closely with stakeholders to understand database requirements and provide

technical solutions.

• Optimize database queries and performance tuning to enhance overall system

efficiency.

• Implement and maintain data security measures, including access controls and

encryption.

• Monitor database systems and troubleshoot issues proactively to ensure uninterrupted

service.

• Develop and enforce data quality standards and processes to maintain data integrity.

• Create and maintain documentation for database architecture, processes, and

procedures.

• Stay updated with the latest database technologies and best practices to drive

continuous improvement.

• Expertise in SQL queries and stored procedures, with the ability to optimize and fine-tune

complex queries for performance and efficiency.

• Experience with monitoring and visualization tools such as Grafana to monitor database

performance and health.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on large-scale data systems.

• Proven experience designing data models and access patterns across SQL and NoSQL

ecosystems.

• Hands-on experience with technologies like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, GraphQL, or

vector databases.

• Proficient in SQL stored procedures with extensive expertise in MySQL schema design,

query optimization, and resolvers, along with hands-on experience in building and

maintaining data warehouses.

• Strong programming skills in Python or JavaScript, with the ability to write efficient,

maintainable code.

• Familiarity with distributed systems, data partitioning, and consistency models.

• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and

debugging production bottlenecks.

• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), including networking, IAM,

and cost optimization.

• Prior experience building multi-tenant systems with strict performance and isolation

guarantees.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence cross-functional technical

decisions.

To design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend systems that

power core business applications. The Senior Engineer – Backend will be responsible for

architecting APIs, optimizing data flow, and ensuring system reliability and performance. This

role will collaborate closely with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver robust

solutions that enable seamless user experiences and support organizational growth through

clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services using Node.js.

• Collaborate with front-end developers and product managers to define and implement

API specifications.

• Optimize application performance and scalability by identifying bottlenecks and

proposing solutions.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and conduct code reviews to ensure

quality standards.

• Develop unit tests and maintain code coverage to ensure high quality.

• Document architectural solutions and system designs to ensure clarity and

maintainability.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, testing, and production environments.

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve

our tech stack.

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent

experience).

• 7+ years of experience in backend development with a focus on Node.js and Javascript.

• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

• Proficiency in database technologies (SQL and NoSQL, such as DynamoDB, MongoDB,

PostgreSQL, etc.).

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Knowledge of cloud platform (AWS) and deployment best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Good to have:

• Experience with front-end frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue.js).

• Understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Familiarity with responsive design and user experience principles.

To lead the development of robust, scalable, and visually engaging frontend applications that deliver exceptional user experiences. The Senior Engineer – Frontend will drive architectural decisions, implement best practices in UI/UX, and ensure seamless integration with backend systems. This role focuses on building high-performance, maintainable interfaces while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the continuous improvement of the overall product development process.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with Product Owner and tech lead to discover, design, develop and deploy great financial tools and products that provide meaningful value to our customers.
• Develop, Unit tests and deploy components.
• Integrate UI application with rest APIs.
• Primary technologies focused on modern front-end - Advanced JS ES6, React, Redux, Angular Js and other modern JS frameworks, HTML/CSS.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, testing, and production environments.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve our tech stack.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of practical experience and proven success with the design, development and operation of complex web applications.
• Strong experience with modern and vanilla JavaScript and Typescript techniques including JSX and ES6/ES7 features
• Familiarity connecting to microservices, REST APIs, graph APIs, and other database- driven web applications
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Asynchronous programming including Promises, async/await, and ES7 generators
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Broad technical knowledge across a majority, with deeper knowledge in, the following: Web application development, Software engineering and/or testing; Data analysis.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Good to have:

• Experience in Node.js is a plus
• Experience in Databases (MySQL, Postgres) will be a plus
• Understanding of RESTful services