Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Troy, MI as a product development consulting company.

It grew through engineering, consulting, CAE software solutions and high performance computing technologies.

Altair based its development on five business units and offers product strategy, design creation and development, commercial CAE and ECAE software solutions, PDM system implementation, client process automation and on-site consulting services to meet complex customer needs. Altair specializes in the development of high-end, open CAE software solutions for modeling, visualization, optimization and process automation.