Full-Time
Engineering Manager
Posted on 8/13/2025
Albert Invent
51-200 employees
Cloud-based R&D platform with AI tooling
No salary listed
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of backend development experience, with at least 2–3 years in a technical leadership role.
- Deep expertise in one of the programming languages (Nodejs, Python, Java). NodeJS is preferred
- Experience leading full stack teams with both backend and frontend engineers.
- Proficient in AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and people leadership skills
- Lead a team of talented engineers, providing technical mentorship, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leaders to plan and deliver key features that power the Albert platform.
- Own and drive sprint planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes.
- Collaborate with architects and engineers to solution new features.
- Identify and address system performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and technical debt.
- Ensure code quality through clean, maintainable implementation and automated testing.
- Author and maintain clear technical documentation, including architectural decisions and system design.
- Guide the team in troubleshooting and resolving issues across development, test, and production environments.
- Champion engineering best practices, continuous learning, and a culture of innovation.
Albert Invent provides a cloud-based, end-to-end R&D platform for chemistry and materials science. It unifies formulation and experimentation tools with AI/ML for data-driven insights, automated inventory management, and regulatory compliance, all accessible as a subscription service. The platform connects lab systems, enabling real-time visibility, on-demand reporting, and better collaboration to reduce experiment iterations and allocate resources efficiently. Unlike other tools that cover only parts of R&D, Albert Invent offers an integrated, global solution that spans technicians, engineers, and managers in academic and commercial labs, helping teams bring products to market faster and with sustainable practices. The company's goal is to accelerate innovation and speed to market by improving productivity, collaboration, and data-driven decision making across the R&D workflow.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$50M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2022
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Series A raised $22.5M from Coatue, TCV, Index Ventures; growth round led by J.P. Morgan totals over $45M.
- Customers include Chemours, Henkel, Nouryon; new deal provides Kenvue chemists AI platform access.
- Launched Japan subsidiary under Dr. Larry Meixner; expanding team in Germany, India, US.
What critics are saying
- Schrödinger's physics-based platform erodes Albert Invent's market share in 12-24 months.
- OpenAI o1 model commoditizes Albert Breakthrough, slashing renewals in 6-12 months.
- Japan's Chemical Substances Law triggers client churn in new subsidiary within 12-18 months.
What makes Albert Invent unique
- Albert Invent unifies ELN, LIMS, inventory, and regulatory tools in one cloud platform for chemistry.
- Albert Breakthrough AI, trained on 15 million structures, predicts molecular properties for chemists.
- Platform captures molecular-level data, enabling AI models tailored to client-specific chemistry.
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Benefits
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -1%1 year growth
↓ -1%2 year growth
↑ 2%To lead this new entity, Albert Invent has appointed Dr. Larry Meixner as president.
Albert Invent has raised a $7.5 million seed round to modernize the chemicals and manufacturing science industry with new software. Homebrew, a venture capital firm, invested in this round alongside lead investor Index Ventures. The investment supports Albert Invent's mission to build a modern collaboration, data, and productivity stack for the chemical and material science sectors, which are often overlooked by startups.
Albert Einstein AI facilitated interview at CloudFest 2025.
PRESS RELEASE - Albert Invent, whose end-to-end R&D platform accelerates chemical innovation in materials science through the application of AI and machine learning, has announced a growth funding round led by J.P. Morgan Private Capital's Growth Equity Partners, with participation from Coatue and TCV.
Albert Invent, an Oakland, CA-based provider of an end-to-end R&D platform for chemical innovation in materials science with AI and machine learning, received an undisclosed amount in growth funding