What was your journey to Arena?

Before joining Arena, I spent four years as the lead electrical engineer at an electric mobility startup in Brooklyn. We built a lightweight moped focused on delivering high performance and premium quality for urban transportation. 

What is your current role at Arena?

I’m an Electrical Engineer at Arena, which is a bit different here than it would be at most other places. It primarily means that I am the first user to test new features and capabilities in our core platform. I’m building hardware projects that mimic what our customers are building. During the process, I’m using Atlas as much as possible so we can iterate and deliver a better product for electrical engineers. I’m also working with our core product team to shape the future of electrical engineering in Atlas.

Why did you join Arena?

I’ve used various different design and simulation tools over the course of my engineering career, and while many of them have great features, they also all have their limitations and nothing covers the full design process. I’m really excited to be developing the next generation of tools - one that has the potential to completely change how engineering work is done.

What are you most excited about over the next year?

We’ve got a lot of cool developments coming, but I’m most excited about our work in the hardware lab, bringing Atlas into the physical realm. Instead of being limited to design use cases like a traditional EDA or simulation tool, Atlas can also be used for hardware testing and debugging, like detecting design or manufacturing faults, and controlling instrumentation to run automated tests.

What is your best advice for anyone interested in joining us at Arena?

If you want the opportunity to influence the direction of the next generation of engineering tools, and to work on interesting projects with technologies from all different industries, then you should join us.

We have a tradition at Arena of sharing our hot takes. What’s a hot take that you have?

The Star Wars prequels are good movies. All three of them, even The Phantom Menace.

Come join us in the Arena! We’re actively hiring for Electrical Engineers - learn more at arena-ai.com/careers