Chat, compare, vote for the world's best AI models. Join the community shaping the public leaderboard for LLMs, image, and code models through real-world evaluation. Backed by Lightspeed and a16z.
About the role
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own entire product areas at Arena — identifying what to build, designing and shipping the solution, driving it to measurable outcomes, and raising the bar for the team along the way. This is a hands-on IC role. You are the architect, not the delegator. You write code, design systems, and ship product — and you have a track record of doing this repeatedly with clear, attributable impact.
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Arena is the platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's SkyLab, we're on a mission to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use, and to build the foundation for everyone to understand, shape, and benefit from it.
Tens of millions of people use Arena each month to evaluate how frontier systems handle the work they actually do. The preferences they share power the most transparent, rigorous, and human-centered evaluations in AI. Leading AI labs, enterprises, and independent researchers rely on our work and open datasets to understand how models behave in real workflows: agentic coding, creative generation, professional productivity, and beyond. We go beyond leaderboards and decompose what human experience reveals about AI, so models advance toward the work people actually do.
We're a team of researchers, academics, builders, and creatives from UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, and DeepMind. We seek truth, move fast, and value craftsmanship, curiosity, and impact over hierarchy. We're building a company where thoughtful, curious people from all backgrounds can do their best work together, in an office...
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