Electrical Engineer, Arena
AI R&D Lab
$150-200k
+ Equity
AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
Open for applications
AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses across industries to make high frequency, critical path decisions fully autonomous.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience as an electrical engineer (design and/or test) working in industry – at a leading company in Aerospace, Automotive or Semiconductors
- Ideally, you like to tinker and build things yourself, e.g., robotics, ham radios, RC cars/planes/drones. You’re familiar with hobbyist hardware, e.g., Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Nvidia Jetson
- You’ve worked with standard EDA and simulation tools – Cadence, Synopsys, Ansys, and are familiar with SPICE, PDN and Verilog-AMS
- You’re familiar with debugging and root causing EMI / EM parasitics
- Genuine enthusiasm and interest to apply Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to real-world applications
- You are familiar with programming/scripting and have used it regularly in your work to date – e.g., Python, NI LabView, Matlab
- You thrive in team environments, are a strong communicator and have demonstrated that you can collaborate well with others from different functions/ specialities
- You are scrappy, and hands-on, and eager to build things from 0 to 1
What the job involves
- You will play a mission-critical role in designing, building, and operationalizing a circuit testing lab from the ground up
- From designing and implementing automated testing processes to creating, simulating, debugging, and testing circuits, you can define the future of EE at Arena
- With your lead, we will define best practices, establish a quality bar, and set the foundation for massive growth
- In close collaboration with our ML scientists, software engineers, and product teams, you will directly shape our product platform ATLAS for the electrical engineering domain
- A truly unique role, at the intersection of hardware and software, in one of the most exciting fields and times to do it
- Design, build & test circuits (PCBs)
- You’ll work on prototype boards – scaled down versions of commercial PCBs for automotive, aerospace and personal computers
- Build our EE test lab
- Source and setup testing equipment, run maintenance, calibration tasks for oscilloscopes, DAQs, power sources, sensors, load simulators, digital communication interfaces
- Design and build automatic test execution scripts / software and integrate into existing our ATLAS product platform using python, LabView, SCPI, etc
- Design and execute experiments
- Test, debug and root cause PCB failures using our EE test lab and standard tooling (see more on tooling in experience section below)
- Expand our test labe to improve controls and measurement for common failure modes (e.g., environmental conditions, circuit characteristics, EMI / EMC)
- Serve as the domain expert and primary collaborator with software engineering and ML teams working on building AI systems that understand EE
- Travel domestically and internationally (up to 25% of your time)
- Work in person at Arena's NYC headquarters when not traveling
Our take
Arena leverages performance data, predictive algorithms, and machine learning technology to help businesses automate high frequency decisions. In theory, the platform can be used to automate marketing strategies, promotions, inventory and supply chain management, pricing, and more.
Although AI automated decision-making may sound overly ambitious at first, a closer look suggests that it’s actually a natural progression from the huge growth of AI-powered data analytics companies. Arena separates itself from these by providing the next actionable step, rather than leaving these decisions up to internal teams.
The company’s “business decision autopilot” is used by a number of Fortune 500 businesses including multinational brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev, so it must be doing something right. While it's shown stable and impressive growth since launching in 2020, a major 2022 fundraise led by Initialized Capital and Goldcrest Capital suggests an aggressive scale up is inevitable.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$32m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$32m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64m
Company benefits
- 99% of the monthly premium for Aetna medical insurance, plus vision and dental coverage
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Laptop and monitor of your choice
- Office supplies stipend
- Ramp Company Card
- Continued education allowance (books, e-courses)
- Attendances to top conferences in their fields
- Lunches at company wide meetings (several times a week)
- Snack and self-serve lunch options
- Global WeWork membership
Company values
- Real world > Lab – We focus on solving real world problems, not over-applying theory, and deliver measurable results that move the needle
- Speed > Perfection – We value getting from 0 to 1 fast, and then iterating. We believe that the more we ship, the faster we learn
- Trust > Procedure – We trust you and ask that you trust us. Micro-management and hierarchies are not our way
- Form + Function – We strive to truly understand the user and build products that move them on both a rational and an emotional level
- Pride - Ego – We shed our egos and approach problems from first principles. True competence is quiet and humble
Company HQ
Ukrainian Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Pratap Ranade
(CEO & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CEO of Kimono Labs (acquired by Palantir), which converts unstructured web data into APIs. Joined Palantir post-acquisition as a Forward Deployed Engineer. Before co-founding Arena, they led Engineering & Machine Learning at Enigma Technologies.
Engin Ural
(CTO & Co-Founder)Former Application Developer at Goldman Sachs. Spent five years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, before joining Enigma Technologies as a Software Engineer.
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