Scientific Communications Lead

Arena Intelligence, Inc.

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About The Position

Arena is seeking a Scientific Communications Lead to define and defend the scientific credibility of the world’s most trusted AI evaluation platform. You’ll ensure that Arena’s methodology, data quality practices, and evaluation results are understood clearly by researchers, labs, policymakers, analysts, and enterprises.
This role is deeply technical and highly cross-functional. You’ll work directly with our research team to translate evaluation science into rigorous public communication, anticipate methodological critiques, and uphold Arena’s commitment to transparency and neutrality.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of experience in AI/ML, evaluation, research, or scientific communications, with deep familiarity in how frontier model performance is measured and debated.
• Strong technical background in machine learning, benchmarking, or model evaluation, with the credibility to engage directly with leading labs and researchers.
• Exceptional writing and communication skills, especially the ability to explain complex methodology clearly without oversimplifying or overstating conclusions.
• Track record of producing scientifically rigorous external-facing work, such as technical publications, evaluation reports, methodology documentation, or research translation.
• Deep comfort operating in ambiguity, where uncertainty, tradeoffs, and limitations must be communicated transparently rather than smoothed over.
• High editorial judgment and the ability to identify where scientific nuance is most likely to be misunderstood or weaponized.
• Collaborative mindset and experience partnering across research, product, policy, and communications teams.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience working with large-scale human preference data, evaluation platforms, or benchmarking systems.
• Familiarity with common failure modes in AI evaluation, including contamination, overfitting, gaming, and distribution shift.
• Experience contributing to open source scientific tooling or methodology transparency efforts.
• Existing relationships within the AI research, safety, or evaluation community.
• Experience engaging with academic institutions, research alliances, or scientific journals.
• Comfort operating within neutrality and integrity constraints required of an independent evaluation platform.

Responsibilities

• Own Arena’s scientific communications strategy, ensuring that our evaluation methodology, benchmarks, and data quality practices are clearly understood and accurately represented externally.
• Lead Arena’s proactive data quality narrative, defending against common critiques and mischaracterizations through transparency, evidence, and high-integrity storytelling.
• Develop canonical explanations of Arena’s measurement approach, including Bradley-Terry-Luce-style ranking, confidence intervals, and uncertainty-aware interpretation.
• Ensure that Arena’s leaderboards are communicated responsibly: rankings are statistical estimates, small differences are often noise, and uncertainty must be preserved in public interpretation.
• Anticipate, track, and respond to methodological critiques, especially around contamination, overfitting, gaming, distribution shift, and evaluation validity.
• Partner closely with researchers to translate technical work into rigorous public materials, including methodology documentation, research posts, and open-source releases.
• Support Arena’s Academic Partnerships Program, strengthening scientific connectivity through collaborations, citations, and peer-reviewed credibility.
• Create briefing materials for high-stakes audiences, including frontier AI labs, policymakers, analysts, and enterprise partners, ensuring that technical nuance survives external scrutiny.
• Serve as a scientific editor and reviewer across external communications, stress-testing claims before they become public narratives.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed