About the job
Join Arena Intelligence
Arena Intelligence is the premier open platform for assessing the real-world performance of AI models. Founded by innovative researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, our mission is to enhance and measure the frontier of AI applications in real-world scenarios.
Every month, millions of users leverage Arena Intelligence to delve into the performance of advanced AI systems. We harness community feedback to create transparent, rigorous, and user-centered evaluations. Leading enterprises and AI research labs count on our assessments to gauge real-world reliability, alignment, and impact. Our leaderboards are recognized as the definitive standard for AI performance, shaping the global discourse around model reliability and progress.
Our dynamic team is composed of researchers, engineers, and academics from esteemed institutions like UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, DeepMind, and Discord. We prioritize truth-seeking, rapid innovation, and craftsmanship, fostering an environment where diverse, thoughtful individuals can excel. Every team member is a deep expert in their respective field, contributing to a vibrant culture of excellence and focus.
Position Overview
We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to architect, build, and enhance the technical framework that drives the world’s most transparent AI evaluation platform. This is more than just a role focused on architecture; you will collaborate closely with product, security, and data teams to identify system bottlenecks, design robust systems, and deploy code that ensures our platform remains fast, reliable, and secure at scale.
Your work will have a significant impact across the technology stack: optimizing system performance, creating building blocks that facilitate swift feature delivery, fortifying our systems against misuse, and scaling infrastructure to accommodate billions of API requests and real-time interactions. If you are passionate about cross-functional collaboration, diving deep into code, and transforming infrastructure into a standalone product, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
Lead technical strategy for Arena’s core infrastructure - encompassing networking, APIs, services, data systems, and security frameworks.
Design and develop high-performance systems capable of scaling to hundreds of millions of real-time interactions and evaluations daily.
Collaborate with security engineering to integrate anti-abuse mechanisms, Sybil resistance, and trust systems into the core architecture of the platform.
Work alongside product engineering to implement infrastructure enhancements that expedite feature delivery and enhance overall platform performance.
