Albert helps 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. Backed by Index.
About the role
We are looking for somebody who is good at deciding how scientific knowledge should be represented. A Knowledge Architect (Scientific Intent) to join our growing AI/ML team. This role has a large hand in how scientific knowledge is modeled, captured, and reasoned over inside Albert OS. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Define the ontologies and taxonomies Albert needs for scientific intent and process narrative, including the types, relationships, and attachment points that connect reasoning to structured experimental data
- Decide how the core data model should be extended, and own the review that keeps new structure traversable, reasoning-friendly, and AI-native rather than accumulating as a dumping ground
- Figure out how to capture scientific intent as chemists work, including what is worth noting as they use the platform and where annotation can enrich the knowledge representation already in the system
- Partner closely with engineers on sophisticated implementations of these data models and ontologies, from typed relationships and versioning through to how the structure behaves in production
- Work with process development chemists to understand how they actually reason through experiments, and with AI/ML engineers building on the graph, so the structure serves real retrieval and reasoning needs
- Create the playbooks and review practices that keep the knowledge layer coherent as more teams write to it, and help grow this discipline as the team expands
More about this role
We are looking for somebody who is good at deciding how scientific knowledge should be represented. A Knowledge Architect (Scientific Intent) to join our growing AI/ML team. This role has a large hand in how scientific knowledge is modeled, captured, and reasoned over inside Albert OS.
Albert's data model captures what happened in the lab: materials, quantities, process parameters, transformation stages, and how they connect to inventory and regulatory context. The reasoning behind that work lives in a different world, in narrative and unstructured context: why a formulation was revised, what a chemist ruled out and why, the thinking patterns that shape a process over months. Connecting those worlds is where scientific reasoning becomes computable, and it is the problem this role takes on. You will define the ontologies Albert needs to represent that, decide how the data model should be extended to hold it, and work with engineers to make those extensions real.
- Define the ontologies and taxonomies Albert needs for scientific intent and process narrative, including the types, relationships, and attachment points that connect reasoning to structured experimental data.
- Decide how...
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