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AltaraResearch Engineer
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LocationSan Francisco, United States
Work modeon-site
Typefull-time
SeniorityLead
DepartmentEngineering
Company size4+ people
PostedMay 2, 2026 · 6mo ago
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Posted by the company on May 2, 2026
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Translate cutting-edge AI research into production-grade systems
Build evals and benchmarks for model and agent performance across scientific tasks
Develop data ingestion and representation systems for multimodal scientific data
Build LLM-based agentic systems and implementations beyond LLMs
Act as a technical leader across the organization
Care about solving meaningful scientific challenges and disrupting the industry
Experience at the intersection of research and engineering
Applied AI/ML engineering and research experience, especially with multi-agent workflows, multimodal data, or search/knowledge retrieval
Product-minded and customer-first
Love to learn, bias toward action, enjoy taking full ownership
Thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments with evolving requirements
Already use AI tools daily and think critically about how to push their limits
Shipped 0-to-1 products at a startup, applied AI lab, or other high-growth environments
Experience or deep curiosity in science
Skills
AI
ML
LLM
multimodal data
search
knowledge retrieval
data ingestion
evaluation
benchmarking
About the company
We’re building the scientific intelligence platform for the physical world, 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 These industries represent trillions in spend, but are still trapped in outdated software.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’re changing that by building the intelligence layer to help scientists and engineers move faster and solve core problems – R&D through manufacturing.
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’re building a world-class team to do it.
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.
What you’ll do:
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Translate cutting-edge AI research into production-grade systems.
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Build evals and benchmarks to rigorously measure model and agent performance across a wide variety of scientific tasks.
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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).
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Build both LLM-based agentic systems and implementations beyond LLMs.
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Act as a technical leader across the organization, helping to define Altara’s technical vision and engineering culture as we scale.
We would love to meet you if you:
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Care about solving meaningful scientific challenges and disrupting the industry.
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Have experience at the intersection of research and engineering: comfortable reading papers one hour and debugging data pipelines the next.
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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.
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Consider yourself product-minded and customer-first.
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Love to learn, bias toward action, and enjoy taking full ownership of problems end-to-end.
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Thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments with evolving requirements.
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Already use AI tools daily and think critically about how to push their limits.
Bonus points if you have:
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Shipped 0-to-1 products at a startup, applied AI lab, or other high-growth environments before.
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Experience or deep curiosity in science.
Learn More about Altara
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