Arena · 3 months ago
Principal Research Scientist, Electromagnetism
New York or San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $350K/yrArenaai is a close-knit team of scientists and builders redefining the future of hardware engineering. The Principal Research Scientist, Electromagnetism will lead the architecture, training, and validation of the electromagnetic foundation model, bridging numerically solved physics equations and neural operators.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Design FNO/AFNO/Deformation-FNO/U-FNO multiscale operator architectures with embedded physical constraints
Implement causality/passivity enforcement and uncertainty calibration
Specify coverage targets
Work with Arena’s Platform Engineering team to orchestrate solver farms and synthetic generation
Work with Arena Electrical Engineers to define a set of requirements and interface for physically-generated training data via hardware-in-the-loop test campaigns
Develop sim-to-real calibration using for example VNA/near-field/BER measurements
Build automated accuracy and constraint eval suite
Own releases and reporting
Profile inference latency and throughput
Author design docs, experiments, and technical reports
Qualification
Required
PhD or equivalent research track in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Computer Science, or Applied Math
Proven expertise building and training large foundation models
Experience with FNO and/or Neural Operators
Understanding of EM solvers (FEM/FDTD/MoM)
Strong Python, PyTorch/JAX, C/C++ for bindings
Proven record of physics-constrained ML or scientific simulation deployment
Preferred
Prior work on passivity/causality enforcement in learned models
Familiar with PDN, high-speed channel design, and EMI compliance testing
Experience and familiarity with high performance principles (e.g. Slurm for scheduling, message passing workloads, etc.), and cloud service provider HPC ecosystems (e.g. AWS Batch, Elastic Fabric Adapter, etc.)
Benefits
100% of the monthly premium for Aetna medical insurance, plus vision and dental coverage
401(k) Retirement Plan
Unlimited PTO
Lunch every day from local restaurants via Sharebite
Relocation support provided (NYC or SF)
Company
Arena
Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware.
Founded in 2019
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$62M2025-04-08Series B· $30M
2022-08-02Series A· $32M
Leadership Team
Pratap Ranade
CEO and Co-Founder
E
Engin Ural
Co-Founder
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