Research Engineer
Altara· Engineering
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
We’re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world to accelerate breakthroughs in semiconductors, batteries, advanced materials, aerospace, and beyond. The team works in-person in San Francisco to create an intelligence layer that helps scientists and engineers move faster from R&D through manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Translate cutting-edge AI research into production-grade systems.
- Build evals and benchmarks to rigorously measure model and agent performance across a wide variety of scientific tasks.
- Develop 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).
- Build both LLM-based agentic systems and implementations beyond LLMs.
- Act as a technical leader across the organization, helping to define Altara’s technical vision and engineering culture as we scale.
Qualifications
- Care about solving meaningful scientific challenges and disrupting the industry.
- Experience at the intersection of research and engineering: comfortable reading papers one hour and debugging data pipelines the next.
- Applied AI/ML engineering and research experience, especially with architecting multi-agent workflows, working with multimodal data, or building search and knowledge retrieval systems.
- Product-minded and customer-first.
- Love to learn, bias toward action, and enjoy taking full ownership of problems end-to-end.
- Thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments with evolving requirements.
- Already use AI tools daily and think critically about how to push their limits.
Skills
Required:AI/ML engineeringMulti-agent systemsData ingestion and representationProduction-grade systemsEvaluation and benchmarking
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Altara
Scientific Intelligence for the Physical World
Altara is building the scientific intelligence platform that helps frontier industries accelerate R&D through manufacturing.
AIscienceengineeringsemiconductorsadvanced materialsbatteriesmedical devicesspecialty chemicals
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