Maximilian Arnold

Interdisciplinary AI product engineer and venture builder who designs, builds, and forms teams dedicated to creating products shaped by intention and exceptional design that next generations will value.

  • Operating at the edge of physical prototyping, software and AI. Turning vague concepts into testable prototypes -> quickly.
  • Designing interfaces that make decades of hidden data speak human. Made data accessible to +300 Porsche procurers.
  • Redesigning institutions to enable future generations. E.g. co-established the CODE x Stanford IHP exchange program.
  • Serial industry challenge winner: T-Mobile, Samsung, Intel, Porsche, Roche, ETH. Building winning teams and products.
  • Known for edgy, sharp, funny, and unforgettable pitches. I build tech that makes people laugh -> and then think.

Work

About

Story

My memory starts when I destroyed my father's laptop at age two. I pushed key combinations until it shut down and never booted back up. That was my first lesson in "intuitive" interaction.

Little Maximilian Arnold at age two using his first computer.
Little Maximilian Arnold at age two receiving his own laptop.

Growing up, I was fascinated by things that lasted. I remember my brother finding a Roman coin in a field near my Bavarian grandparents' home. It struck me: someone crafted this object two thousand years ago, and it outlived its empire.

Roman coin found near my Bavarian grandparents' home.
Roman coin we found on a farm near my grandparents' home.

Today, we build disposable software and neglect to preserve our data and memories.

My mission is to create a Digital Bauhaus:
technology that balances function, aesthetics, and long-term responsibility. Whether I'm designing AI for decade old data or testing social behavior with contrary products like wagering platforms for eSports, I want to build artifacts that future archaeologists would be proud to uncover.

Technology should be meaningful, beautiful, durable and serve purposes that next generations continue to value.

Timeline

  • Sep 2024 -
    Aug 2025
    Porsche AG Lead Product Engineer (Capstone),
    Data Science & AI in Procurement
  • Jun 2024 -
    Aug 2024
    Stanford University Visiting Student,
    CS, Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
    Architected Stanford IHP x CODE exchange program
  • Aug 2022 -
    Dec 2022
    sterna.studio Co-Founder & Tech Lead. Green Energy Vertical SaaS.
    Secured €150k LOI from Nordex SE
  • Sep 2021 -
    Present
    CODE University of Applied Sciences
    B.Sc. Software Engineering.
    Student Council President
  • 2019 - 2022 Early ventures, XR challenges & hardware experiments in Berlin, Germany
  • 2017 -
    Present
    Volunteer at refugees' integration organization kein Abseits! e.V.

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Let's build something that lasts.