[{"absolute_url":"https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDrGiWSZkiNcX39c26V88Au8","content":"<div><strong>We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world</strong>, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&amp;D through manufacturing.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>We recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What you\u2019ll do:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Architect and build the early foundations of Altara\u2019s core product and infrastructure.</li><li class=\"\">Ship end-to-end features across the stack, balancing speed, scope, and user experience.</li><li class=\"\">Develop data ingestion and representation systems that can automatically extract structure and insight from multimodal, messy real-world scientific data (e.g., R&amp;D databases, spreadsheets, images, technical documents, etc).</li><li class=\"\">Build both LLM-based agentic systems and implementations beyond LLMs.</li><li class=\"\">Act as a technical leader across the organization, mentoring top talent and helping define Altara\u2019s technical vision and engineering culture as we scale.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>We would love to meet you if you:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Care about solving meaningful scientific challenges and disrupting the industry, not just building another SaaS tool.</li><li class=\"\">Have shipped 0-to-1 products at a startup, applied AI lab, or other high-growth environments before.</li><li class=\"\">Consider yourself a product-first engineer - you start from the user problem, not the technology, and make smart technical tradeoffs to deliver impact fast.</li><li class=\"\">Love to learn, bias toward action, and enjoy taking full ownership of problems end-to-end.</li><li class=\"\">Thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments with evolving requirements.</li><li class=\"\">Already use AI tools daily and think critically about how to push their limits.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Bonus points if you have:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Worked at an early stage startup, founded a company, or plan to start one someday.</li><li class=\"\">Applied AI/ML engineering and research experience, especially with building search and ranking tools, LLM-based applications, agentic workflows, and computer vision.</li><li class=\"\">Experience or deep curiosity in science.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Learn More about Altara</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\"><a href=\"http://altara.ai/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Website</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://x.com/catherinehyeo/status/2051683285450019073?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Video</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/altara-secures-7m-to-bridge-the-data-gap-thats-slowing-down-physical-sciences/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch</a></li><li class=\"\">Follow us on <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/altara-technologies/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn</a> and <a href=\"https://x.com/altaratech\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">X</a></li></ul>","content_plain":"We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world\n, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&D through manufacturing.\nWe have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.\nWe recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.\nWhat you\u2019ll do:\nArchitect and build the early foundations of Altara\u2019s core product and infrastructure.\nShip end-to-end features across the stack, balancing speed, scope, and user experience.\nDevelop data ingestion and representation systems that can automatically extract structure and insight from multimodal, messy real-world scientific data (e.g., R&D databases, spreadsheets, images, technical documents, etc).\nBuild both LLM-based agentic systems and implementations beyond LLMs.\nAct as a technical leader across the organization, mentoring top talent and helping define Altara\u2019s technical vision and engineering culture as we scale.\nWe would love to meet you if you:\nCare about solving meaningful scientific challenges and disrupting the industry, not just building another SaaS tool.\nHave shipped 0-to-1 products at a startup, applied AI lab, or other high-growth environments before.\nConsider yourself a product-first engineer - you start from the user problem, not the technology, and make smart technical tradeoffs to deliver impact fast.\nLove to learn, bias toward action, and enjoy taking full ownership of problems end-to-end.\nThrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments with evolving requirements.\nAlready use AI tools daily and think critically about how to push their limits.\nBonus points if you have:\nWorked at an early stage startup, founded a company, or plan to start one someday.\nApplied AI/ML engineering and research experience, especially with building search and ranking tools, LLM-based applications, agentic workflows, and computer vision.\nExperience or deep curiosity in science.\nLearn More about Altara\nWebsite\nVideo\nTechCrunch\nFollow us on \nLinkedIn\n and \nX","created_at":"2025-10-17T23:07:30.982Z","departments":[{"child_ids":[],"id":"ZGVwdDrPecSf1d9mfy2jVJxlDiMx","name":"Engineering","parent_id":null}],"employment_type":"full_time","first_published_at":"2026-05-02T07:29:32.963Z","id":"am9icG9zdDrGiWSZkiNcX39c26V88Au8","internal_job_id":"am9iOqqnaohKdy0zEAIolBKqLJM","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"location_type":"in_office","offices":[{"child_ids":[],"child_office_external_ids":[],"id":"bG9jOjS_YOqfsTu1X4djWc_Md_4","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"name":"San Francisco","parent_id":null,"parent_office_external_id":null}],"requisition_id":"swe","title":"Software Engineer","updated_at":"2026-09-23T17:31:05.215Z"},{"absolute_url":"https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDrSjBCzQypr7oURMiRs2WKk","content":"<div><strong>We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world</strong>, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&amp;D through manufacturing.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>We recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What you\u2019ll do:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Translate cutting-edge AI research into production-grade systems.</li><li class=\"\">Build evals and benchmarks to rigorously measure model and agent performance across a wide variety of scientific tasks.</li><li class=\"\">Develop data ingestion and representation systems that can automatically extract structure and insight from multimodal, messy real-world scientific data (e.g., R&amp;D databases, spreadsheets, images, technical documents, etc).</li><li class=\"\">Build both LLM-based agentic systems and implementations beyond LLMs.</li><li class=\"\">Act as a technical leader across the organization, helping to define Altara\u2019s technical vision and engineering culture as we scale.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>We would love to meet you if you:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Care about solving meaningful scientific challenges and disrupting the industry.</li><li class=\"\">Have experience at the intersection of research and engineering: comfortable reading papers one hour and debugging data pipelines the next.</li><li class=\"\">Have applied AI/ML engineering and research experience, especially with architecting multi-agent workflows, working with multimodal data, or building search and knowledge retrieval systems.</li><li class=\"\">Consider yourself product-minded and customer-first.</li><li class=\"\">Love to learn, bias toward action, and enjoy taking full ownership of problems end-to-end.</li><li class=\"\">Thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments with evolving requirements.</li><li class=\"\">Already use AI tools daily and think critically about how to push their limits.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Bonus points if you have:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Shipped 0-to-1 products at a startup, applied AI lab, or other high-growth environments before.</li><li class=\"\">Experience or deep curiosity in science.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Learn More about Altara</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\"><a href=\"http://altara.ai/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Website</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://x.com/catherinehyeo/status/2051683285450019073?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Video</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/altara-secures-7m-to-bridge-the-data-gap-thats-slowing-down-physical-sciences/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch</a></li><li class=\"\">Follow us on <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/altara-technologies/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn</a> and <a href=\"https://x.com/altaratech\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">X</a></li></ul><div><br></div>","content_plain":"We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world\n, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&D through manufacturing.\nWe have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.\nWe recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.\nWhat you\u2019ll do:\nTranslate cutting-edge AI research into production-grade systems.\nBuild evals and benchmarks to rigorously measure model and agent performance across a wide variety of scientific tasks.\nDevelop data ingestion and representation systems that can automatically extract structure and insight from multimodal, messy real-world scientific data (e.g., R&D databases, spreadsheets, images, technical documents, etc).\nBuild both LLM-based agentic systems and implementations beyond LLMs.\nAct as a technical leader across the organization, helping to define Altara\u2019s technical vision and engineering culture as we scale.\nWe would love to meet you if you:\nCare about solving meaningful scientific challenges and disrupting the industry.\nHave experience at the intersection of research and engineering: comfortable reading papers one hour and debugging data pipelines the next.\nHave applied AI/ML engineering and research experience, especially with architecting multi-agent workflows, working with multimodal data, or building search and knowledge retrieval systems.\nConsider yourself product-minded and customer-first.\nLove to learn, bias toward action, and enjoy taking full ownership of problems end-to-end.\nThrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments with evolving requirements.\nAlready use AI tools daily and think critically about how to push their limits.\nBonus points if you have:\nShipped 0-to-1 products at a startup, applied AI lab, or other high-growth environments before.\nExperience or deep curiosity in science.\nLearn More about Altara\nWebsite\nVideo\nTechCrunch\nFollow us on \nLinkedIn\n and \nX","created_at":"2026-05-02T07:34:35.573Z","departments":[{"child_ids":[],"id":"ZGVwdDrPecSf1d9mfy2jVJxlDiMx","name":"Engineering","parent_id":null}],"employment_type":"full_time","first_published_at":"2026-05-02T07:39:03.595Z","id":"am9icG9zdDrSjBCzQypr7oURMiRs2WKk","internal_job_id":"am9iOqqnaohKdy0zEAIolBKqLJM","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"location_type":"in_office","offices":[{"child_ids":[],"child_office_external_ids":[],"id":"bG9jOjS_YOqfsTu1X4djWc_Md_4","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"name":"San Francisco","parent_id":null,"parent_office_external_id":null}],"requisition_id":"swe","title":"Research Engineer","updated_at":"2026-09-23T17:31:16.295Z"},{"absolute_url":"https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDoulC4ltMMjc9og0fypZsDE","content":"<div><strong>We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world</strong>, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in R&amp;D spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core R&amp;D problems.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>We recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>The Opportunity</strong></div><div>We\u2019re always on the lookout for exceptional people, even if there\u2019s no open role that\u2019s a perfect fit right now. If you believe your skills and experience align with our mission and you're excited about what we're building, we\u2019d love to hear from you.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Learn More about Altara</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\"><a href=\"http://altara.ai/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Website</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://x.com/catherinehyeo/status/2051683285450019073?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Video</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/altara-secures-7m-to-bridge-the-data-gap-thats-slowing-down-physical-sciences/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch</a></li><li class=\"\">Follow us on <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/altara-technologies/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn</a> and <a href=\"https://x.com/altaratech\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">X</a></li></ul><div><br></div>","content_plain":"We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world\n, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in R&D spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core R&D problems.\nWe have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.\nWe recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.\nThe Opportunity\nWe\u2019re always on the lookout for exceptional people, even if there\u2019s no open role that\u2019s a perfect fit right now. If you believe your skills and experience align with our mission and you're excited about what we're building, we\u2019d love to hear from you.\nLearn More about Altara\nWebsite\nVideo\nTechCrunch\nFollow us on \nLinkedIn\n and \nX","created_at":"2026-05-02T08:06:34.588Z","departments":[],"employment_type":"full_time","first_published_at":"2026-05-02T08:07:53.371Z","id":"am9icG9zdDoulC4ltMMjc9og0fypZsDE","internal_job_id":"am9iOvLkhgq3H8XcFJX5sGFy2OI","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"location_type":"in_office","offices":[{"child_ids":[],"child_office_external_ids":[],"id":"bG9jOjS_YOqfsTu1X4djWc_Md_4","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"name":"San Francisco","parent_id":null,"parent_office_external_id":null}],"requisition_id":"R5","title":"Don't See Your Role? Apply Here!","updated_at":"2026-09-23T17:30:18.431Z"},{"absolute_url":"https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDrxzkFRhhDT-cwvjk2PFyir","content":"<div><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world</strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&amp;D through manufacturing.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">We recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.</span></div><div><br></div><div><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The Role:&nbsp;</strong></div><div><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Altara\u2019s product can create significant value, but adoption requires someone to sit with scientists, understand how they work, earn their trust, identify the right workflow, and guide them toward a measurable outcome. We\u2019re looking for someone that combines the technical skills to troubleshoot issues and build lightweight solutions for customers with the social stamina and patience to teach them how to use a brand new technology.</span></div><div><br></div><div><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">What you\u2019ll do:</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Learn how scientists currently work, including their tools, data, language, and constraints.</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Identify high-value workflows where Altara can make an immediate difference.</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Drive pilots toward measurable outcomes, such as improving yield or shortening an R&amp;D process, creating clear customer wins and accelerating deal cycles.</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Configure the product, troubleshoot issues, and build lightweight solutions around and with our customers.</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Teach users how to incorporate Altara into their daily work and create new champions and power users.</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Bring recurring customer insights back to engineering and turn them into reusable product capabilities, helping shape our product and engineering roadmap.</span></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">We would love to meet you if you have:</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Enough technical depth to understand data, troubleshoot integrations, configure the product, and prototype simple solutions</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Experience working in semiconductors, physics, chemistry, materials science, or a related field</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">High social stamina and genuine energy from spending days with customers</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The patience to teach people who are unfamiliar with AI</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Strong discovery skills and the confidence to keep asking questions when others stop</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Product judgment to separate a one-off customer request from something Altara should build for everyone</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Comfort traveling, operating independently, and working through ambiguity</span></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Bonus points if you have:</strong></div><div><br></div><ul><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Worked at an early stage startup, founded a company, or plan to start one someday.</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Experience working with a large variety of customers across industries and teaching them how to use new technology</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Experience or deep curiosity in science - you can talk shop with our customers about the problems they face</span></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Learn More about Altara</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\"><a href=\"http://altara.ai/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Website</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://x.com/catherinehyeo/status/2051683285450019073?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Video</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/altara-secures-7m-to-bridge-the-data-gap-thats-slowing-down-physical-sciences/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\">TechCrunch</a></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Follow us on</span><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/altara-technologies/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"> </a><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/altara-technologies/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\">LinkedIn</a><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"> and</span><a href=\"https://x.com/altaratech\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"> </a><a href=\"https://x.com/altaratech\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\">X</a></li></ul>","content_plain":"We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world\n, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&D through manufacturing.\nWe have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.\nWe recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.\nThe Role:\u00a0\nAltara\u2019s product can create significant value, but adoption requires someone to sit with scientists, understand how they work, earn their trust, identify the right workflow, and guide them toward a measurable outcome. We\u2019re looking for someone that combines the technical skills to troubleshoot issues and build lightweight solutions for customers with the social stamina and patience to teach them how to use a brand new technology.\nWhat you\u2019ll do:\nLearn how scientists currently work, including their tools, data, language, and constraints.\nIdentify high-value workflows where Altara can make an immediate difference.\nDrive pilots toward measurable outcomes, such as improving yield or shortening an R&D process, creating clear customer wins and accelerating deal cycles.\nConfigure the product, troubleshoot issues, and build lightweight solutions around and with our customers.\nTeach users how to incorporate Altara into their daily work and create new champions and power users.\nBring recurring customer insights back to engineering and turn them into reusable product capabilities, helping shape our product and engineering roadmap.\nWe would love to meet you if you have:\nEnough technical depth to understand data, troubleshoot integrations, configure the product, and prototype simple solutions\nExperience working in semiconductors, physics, chemistry, materials science, or a related field\nHigh social stamina and genuine energy from spending days with customers\nThe patience to teach people who are unfamiliar with AI\nStrong discovery skills and the confidence to keep asking questions when others stop\nProduct judgment to separate a one-off customer request from something Altara should build for everyone\nComfort traveling, operating independently, and working through ambiguity\nBonus points if you have:\nWorked at an early stage startup, founded a company, or plan to start one someday.\nExperience working with a large variety of customers across industries and teaching them how to use new technology\nExperience or deep curiosity in science - you can talk shop with our customers about the problems they face\nLearn More about Altara\nWebsite\nVideo\nTechCrunch\nFollow us on\n \nLinkedIn\n and\n \nX","created_at":"2026-09-04T16:47:38.956Z","departments":[{"child_ids":[],"id":"ZGVwdDrPecSf1d9mfy2jVJxlDiMx","name":"Engineering","parent_id":null}],"employment_type":"full_time","first_published_at":"2026-09-05T00:03:38.851Z","id":"am9icG9zdDrxzkFRhhDT-cwvjk2PFyir","internal_job_id":"am9iOmPD4jp8EbecxkdyCp4nSK4","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"location_type":"in_office","offices":[{"child_ids":[],"child_office_external_ids":[],"id":"bG9jOjS_YOqfsTu1X4djWc_Md_4","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"name":"San Francisco","parent_id":null,"parent_office_external_id":null}],"requisition_id":"fde","title":"Forward Deployed Engineer","updated_at":"2026-10-12T05:35:49.056Z"},{"absolute_url":"https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDqB6S61MR3u-MiBbzCqg8VE","content":"<div><strong>We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world</strong>, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&amp;D through manufacturing.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.</div><div><br></div><div>We recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What you\u2019ll do:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Architect and own complex customer-hosted cloud deployments that run scalably and reliably across diverse customer environments.</li><li class=\"\">Triage, debug, and resolve high-severity issues end-to-end, building bulletproof automated safeguards and observability to permanently prevent regressions.</li><li class=\"\">Design fully automated, repeatable deployment pipelines with deep observability to proactively surface edge cases before they hit production.</li><li class=\"\">Drive developer velocity and build internal tooling that empower the engineering team to ship fast without sacrificing reliability or security.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>We would love to meet you if you have experience:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Operating production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.</li><li class=\"\">Delivering on-prem or customer-hosted software</li><li class=\"\">Strong Linux, networking and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals</li><li class=\"\">Independently owning incidents and communicating with customers</li><li class=\"\">Working with the following key technologies:<ul><li class=\"\">Public cloud/AWS etc, Managed Kubernetes knowledge, IaC tools like Terraform</li><li class=\"\">GitOps/Argo CD, Linux, networking, IAM and observability tooling</li><li class=\"\">On-prem deployment; air-gapped experience is a bonus</li></ul></li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Bonus points if you have:</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\">Worked at an early stage startup, founded a company, or plan to start one someday.</li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Air-gapped or restricted-network deployment experience</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud or enterprise security experience</span></li><li class=\"\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Experience supporting data/AI infrastructure</span></li><li class=\"\">Experience or deep curiosity in science.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Learn More about Altara</strong></div><ul><li class=\"\"><a href=\"http://altara.ai/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Website</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://x.com/catherinehyeo/status/2051683285450019073?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Video</a></li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/altara-secures-7m-to-bridge-the-data-gap-thats-slowing-down-physical-sciences/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch</a></li><li class=\"\">Follow us on <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/altara-technologies/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn</a> and <a href=\"https://x.com/altaratech\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">X</a></li></ul>","content_plain":"We\u2019re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world\n, to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We\u2019re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems -- R&D through manufacturing.\nWe have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and the physical sciences. And we\u2019re building a world-class team to do it.\nWe recently raised a seed round led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2, and top angels including Jeff Dean + leadership at OpenAI and AMD. Our team (ex-Applied Intuition, Glean, SpaceX, Warp, Jane Street, Verkada) works in-person in San Francisco. Our office is located walking distance from 4th and King Caltrain station.\nWhat you\u2019ll do:\nArchitect and own complex customer-hosted cloud deployments that run scalably and reliably across diverse customer environments.\nTriage, debug, and resolve high-severity issues end-to-end, building bulletproof automated safeguards and observability to permanently prevent regressions.\nDesign fully automated, repeatable deployment pipelines with deep observability to proactively surface edge cases before they hit production.\nDrive developer velocity and build internal tooling that empower the engineering team to ship fast without sacrificing reliability or security.\nWe would love to meet you if you have experience:\nOperating production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.\nDelivering on-prem or customer-hosted software\nStrong Linux, networking and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals\nIndependently owning incidents and communicating with customers\nWorking with the following key technologies:\nPublic cloud/AWS etc, Managed Kubernetes knowledge, IaC tools like Terraform\nGitOps/Argo CD, Linux, networking, IAM and observability tooling\nOn-prem deployment; air-gapped experience is a bonus\nBonus points if you have:\nWorked at an early stage startup, founded a company, or plan to start one someday.\nAir-gapped or restricted-network deployment experience\nMulti-cloud, hybrid-cloud or enterprise security experience\nExperience supporting data/AI infrastructure\nExperience or deep curiosity in science.\nLearn More about Altara\nWebsite\nVideo\nTechCrunch\nFollow us on \nLinkedIn\n and \nX","created_at":"2026-09-04T17:35:08.260Z","departments":[{"child_ids":[],"id":"ZGVwdDrPecSf1d9mfy2jVJxlDiMx","name":"Engineering","parent_id":null}],"employment_type":"full_time","first_published_at":"2026-09-05T00:01:40.172Z","id":"am9icG9zdDqB6S61MR3u-MiBbzCqg8VE","internal_job_id":"am9iOllYxTkunvIbTPbit_PbIk8","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"location_type":"in_office","offices":[{"child_ids":[],"child_office_external_ids":[],"id":"bG9jOjS_YOqfsTu1X4djWc_Md_4","location":{"name":"San Francisco, United States"},"name":"San Francisco","parent_id":null,"parent_office_external_id":null}],"requisition_id":"infra","title":"Software Engineer, Infrastructure","updated_at":"2026-09-23T17:30:33.969Z"}]
