# Head of Engineering, Core Application

We help chemists change the world by building technology that understands how they work. As chemists ourselves, we know what it's like when software doesn't work the way you do, stuck with systems built by people who never spent a day at the bench. That's why we created Albert OS, the first chemistry-native AI operating system for materials science, designed to remove every obstacle between curiosity and discovery. Today we are taking that further. We are building the system where chemists and AI reason about science together, and where we enable every chemical company to build its own frontier intelligence on top of its own research. We are looking for somebody who has built products around AI, where the AI rooted into the foundational capabilities, ontology, and data model. The Director of Engineering, Core Product will expand and lead the team behind the heart of Albert OS. This role owns the engineering that turns what happens in the lab into a structured, living representation of scientific knowledge, and the product surfaces where chemists and AI work on it together. About the role Albert's core product today supports all the work scientists do and captures what happens in th

- **Id**: 3780965
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/albert-invent-head-of-engineering-core-application>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oakland, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T21:07:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T21:11:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5692
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI for Science, Scientific & Lab Software

## Company

- **Id**: 669012
- **Name**: Albert Invent
- **Domain**: albertinvent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/albertinvent>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 58
- **Open postings**: 23
- **Ghost share**: 0.696
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T00:51:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 3; Filings 12m: 3

## Liveness

- **Score**: 62
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.616
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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