 Altair was founded by James R Scapa, George Christ, and Mark Kistner in 1985.Altair Engineering is the creator of the HyperWorks suite of CAE software products.Altair is divided into several business divisions, a few are "Product Design" (PD), "HyperWorks CAE Software" (HW), "SmartWorks" (SW), "Knowledge Works" (KW) and "PBS Works" (PBS)

Altair was established in 1985.