Software Engineer, Marketing & Web

Arena; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Health benefits

Cutting-edge AI work

Job summary

Arena Intelligence is seeking a frontend-focused Software Engineer to own our public web surfaces—the blog, marketing pages, and the leaderboard UI used by millions to evaluate AI models.

You will work with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and CSS to ship high-quality marketing sites, data-dense product UI, and CMS tooling in a fast, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering, with most of that time on production frontend.
• Portfolio or shipped work showing high-craft public pages: marketing sites, content sites, or data-dense product UI.
• Deep skill in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and CSS — implement complex layouts, motion, and responsive design.
• Enough full-stack skill to read an API, extend a route, and follow the request lifecycle.
• Clear communication with designers, marketers, and engineers — defend a tradeoff and explain it to a non-engineer.
• Evidence of shipping and iterating. Describe a page you owned, outcomes, and changes.
• Genuine curiosity about AI evaluation and Arena's mission.

Responsibilities

• Own the Arena blog end-to-end.
• Build and maintain marketing pages in the same design system as the product.
• Improve the public leaderboard frontend: tables, charts, filters, and UX for evaluation data.
• Keep surfaces fast, accessible, and indexable.
• Build CMS models and internal publishing tools so marketing can ship without waiting on engineering.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

CSS

Frontend engineering

UI/UX

Tools

Sanity CMS

HonoJS

Tailwind

ShadCN

Job description

About Arena Intelligence

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.

About Arena Intelligence

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 culture that radiates excellence, energy, and focus.

About The Role

We're looking for a frontend-specialized Software Engineer to own Arena's public web surfaces: the blog, marketing pages, and the leaderboard UI that millions of people use to judge how AI models perform.

You’ll

• Own the Arena blog end-to-end
• Build and maintain marketing pages (product, features, resources, careers, campaign pages) in the same design system as the product
• Improve the public leaderboard frontend: tables, charts, filters, and the UX that makes evaluation data accessible
• Keep these surfaces fast, accessible, and indexable
• Build CMS models and internal publishing tools so marketing and content can ship without waiting on engineering

You’ll Have

• 6+ years of software engineering, with most of that time on production frontend
• A portfolio or shipped work that shows high-craft public pages: marketing sites, content sites, or data-dense product UI
• Deep skill in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and CSS — you can implement complex layouts, motion, and responsive design
• Enough full-stack skill to work in a product codebase. You can read an API, extend a route, and follow the request lifecycle
• Clear communication with designers, marketers, and engineers — you can defend a tradeoff and explain it to a non-engineer
• Evidence of shipping and iterating. You can describe a page or surface you owned, what happened after launch, and what you changed
• Genuine curiosity about AI evaluation and Arena's mission. You have looked at arena.ai and can say why this public surface matters

Bonus

• Experience with a headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful, or similar): content modeling, structured data, and the operational side of a live site
• Leaderboards, data tables, or visualization work (charts, ranking UIs, dense filterable tables)
• SEO, Core Web Vitals, structured data / JSON-LD
• Animation (Motion, GSAP, or CSS) used with restraint
• You've shipped without a dedicated PM — took a brief from marketing or design and drove it to production

Our Tech Stack

• Next.js
• React + TypeScript
• Tailwind + ShadCN
• Sanity CMS (blog and marketing pages)
• HonoJS

What we offer

• We offer competitive compensation and equity aligned to the markets where our team members are based. The base salary range will depend on the candidate’s permanent work location.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and additional support programs.
• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team
• A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact

Come help build the space where anyone can explore and help shape the future of AI.

Arena Intelligence provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.