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Forward Deployed Engineer

Altara· Engineering
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San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Altara’s product enables scientists and engineers to accelerate R&D and manufacturing by integrating AI with physical sciences. The Forward Deployed Engineer works in-person in San Francisco, partnering with customers to understand workflows, configure the product, run pilots, and translate customer insights into product improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Learn how scientists currently work, including their tools, data, language, and constraints.
  • Identify high-value workflows where Altara can make an immediate difference.
  • Drive pilots toward measurable outcomes, such as improving yield or shortening an R&D process, creating clear customer wins and accelerating deal cycles.
  • Configure the product, troubleshoot issues, and build lightweight solutions around and with our customers.
  • Teach users how to incorporate Altara into their daily work and create new champions and power users.
  • Bring recurring customer insights back to engineering and turn them into reusable product capabilities, helping shape our product and engineering roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Enough technical depth to understand data, troubleshoot integrations, configure the product, and prototype simple solutions.
  • Scientific fluency from engineering, physics, robotics, manufacturing, semiconductors, physics, chemistry, materials science, or a related field.
  • High social stamina and genuine energy from spending days with customers.
  • The patience to teach people who are unfamiliar with AI.
  • Strong discovery skills and the confidence to keep asking questions when others stop.
  • Product judgment to separate a one-off customer request from something Altara should build for everyone.
  • Comfort traveling, operating independently, and working through ambiguity.

Skills

Required:Technical depth for data, integrations, configuration, and prototypingScientific fluency in related fieldsCommunication and stakeholder managementDiscovery and product judgmentWillingness to travel and operate independently
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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