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These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software. We’re 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’re 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:\nAltara’s 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’re 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’ll 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\nScientific fluency from engineering, physics, robotics, manufacturing, 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 onLinkedIn and X","description_format":"text","description_chars":3208,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T17:18:54Z"}],"liveness":{"score":31,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.565,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":23,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:6","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/altara-forward-deployed-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/altara-forward-deployed-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T04:05:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3842,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1158,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}