Electrical Engineer, Arena
Test Automation
$130-175k
Plus equity
More information about location
AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
Be an early applicant
AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-175k
Plus equity
More information about location
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 test automation electrical engineer working in industry, ideally at a frontier hardware or aerospace company
- Test automation expertise — Serve as the domain expert and primary collaborator with software engineering and ML teams working on building AI systems that understand EE
- Experience with computer hardware communication bus protocols: USB, I2C, I2S, CSI, Ethernet, SPI, PCIe, HDMI, CAN, serial comms, etc
- Strong communication — You can explain complex physical behavior clearly, write structured technical reports, and align cross-functional teams around root causes and next steps
What the job involves
- At Arena, we're building foundational intelligence for modern hardware. Our AI platform Atlas operationalizes physics-grounded intelligence to verify, debug, and optimize hardware across its lifecycle
- Atlas is already trusted globally by the world's most advanced hardware companies, including AMD and Bausch & Lomb, for applications across R&D, integration testing, production assembly, and field repair
- As an Electrical Engineer specializing in Test Automation, you will advance Atlas’s ability to reason about real-world hardware validation and own our product features for automated test and verification workflows
- You'll work across a varied field of applications, from functional board test and end-of-line validation to communication bus protocol verification and mixed-signal measurement
- You will define test strategies, design and build automated test systems, take measurements in the lab, and forward deploy to customers — all in pursuit of redefining hardware innovation
- Build test automation capabilities for Atlas - Lead test plan strategy and methodology definition for new modules and features within Atlas, owning the quality bar from component level to full system
- Bring PCB design expertise - Work with tools like Altium and Cadence OrCAD to support integrations and workflows into Atlas
- Develop test procedures and automation scripts - Implement automated validation from component level to system level using Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, and similar tools
- Perform hands-on testing - Take measurements in the lab, analyze test data, and communicate results clearly to drive design and product improvements
- Automate test workflows at scale - Convert best-practice test automation processes into reusable templates and Atlas features in close partnership with our software engineering team
- Support forward-deployed engineering - Embed with customers when needed to diagnose real hardware issues, understand their processes and workflows, and feed learnings back into the platform
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
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2025
$30m
SERIES B
Aug 2022
$32m
SERIES A
Total funding: $94m
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 HQ
Ukrainian Village, New York, NY
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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