> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Forward Deployed Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1e922ceead0e1799 Altara posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for helping scientific and engineering customers adopt Altara by understanding their workflows, configuring and troubleshooting the product, and building lightweight solutions. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Altara](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/altara) Posted Sep 4, 2026 by Altara · open on Gem as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for helping scientific and engineering customers adopt Altara by understanding their workflows, configuring and troubleshooting the product, and building lightweight solutions. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F1e922ceead0e1799&placement=top) - [View posting at Altara](https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDrxzkFRhhDT-cwvjk2PFyir) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Not stated FDE postings, 50 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $151K to $204K, median $180K. ### The work Plans what the customer deploys first Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation (not covered) 4. Operations (not covered) Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Configuration only - **Builds for**: External customers - **Role**: Individual contributor ### Do you meet what the posting states? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Exa (formerly Metaphor)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/exa-formerly-metaphor) ### [Product Manager, Forward Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5c82ba2222265ca0) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $155,000–$275,000 [Emanate](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/emanate) ### [Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4ecbbd856813e7d7) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago Pay not posted [Bolo AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bolo-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Product Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cc92741333c33cfa) Palo Alto, CA · Houston, TX Hybrid 6w ago Pay not posted - [Other jobs at Altara (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/altara) ## The job description from Altara Posted by Altara on Sep 4, 2026 **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. ### The Role Altara’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. ### What you’ll do - 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. - Teach users how to incorporate Altara into their daily work and create new champions and power users. - Translate recurring customer insights into core product requirements, building scalable product and platform capabilities. ### We would love to meet you if you have - Enough technical depth to understand data, troubleshoot integrations, configure the product, and prototype simple solutions - Experience working in 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 ### Bonus points if you have - Worked at an early stage startup, founded a company, or plan to start one someday. - Experience working with a large variety of customers across industries and teaching them how to use new technology - Experience or deep curiosity in science - you can talk shop with our customers about the problems they face ### Learn More about Altara - Website - Video - TechCrunch - Follow us on LinkedIn and X [View posting at Altara](https://jobs.gem.com/altara/am9icG9zdDrxzkFRhhDT-cwvjk2PFyir) ## About Altara Altara builds AI agents that unify fragmented scientific and engineering data to accelerate R&D and manufacturing workflows in semiconductors, batteries, and advanced materials. 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