Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Healthcare & Life Sciences

WEBSITE

http://www.arsenale.bio/

About the company

Arsenale Bioyards builds an end-to-end biomanufacturing platform aimed at making industrial-scale precision fermentation economically viable. The company positions the platform as “software-first”, combining fermentation hardware, sensing, data and AI to shorten development cycles from lab work to production. Arsenale Bioyards was founded in 2023 and presents itself as a cross-disciplinary team spanning biology, engineering and machine learning. The company publicly recruits for both bioprocess operations roles in Italy and AI roles that can be remote.

Locations and presence

Arsenale Bioyards is headquartered in Milan with operations highlighted in Pordenone, Italy, and a stated presence in the US (including San Francisco listed on the company page). The company’s “⍺-Yard” location is described as Pordenone, near the Dolomites, tying operations to a specific onsite manufacturing footprint.

Palpable Score

49.6

/ 100

Arsenale Bioyards puts real early-career access on the board through technician and associate hiring in biomanufacturing, but most visible roles still skew experienced (large-scale fermentation and PhD-level AI). The public evidence is thin on pay, benefits, and early-career outcomes, which caps the score even where role write-ups are clear.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company lists junior-leaning operations roles such as Fermentation Technician or Research Associate, including three open seats in Pordenone, which is a meaningful volume for a small team.
Arsenale Bioyards also advertises a Fermentation Associate role, which is typically closer to early-career scope than the engineer track.
The company’s other visible openings include a large-scale Fermentation Engineer and PhD-level Research Scientist (AI), which limits how “entry-level” the overall funnel looks.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company’s job pages spell out concrete responsibilities, onsite location, and shift patterns (for example, a Wednesday–Saturday rotation totaling 38 hours), which helps candidates self-select realistically.
Arsenale Bioyards frames recruitment as “mutual exploration” on the public hiring page, which signals a candidate-respectful intent, but the steps and timelines are not clearly shown in accessible listings.
The company relies partly on email-based applications via the careers board, which can feel less transparent than a fully structured ATS flow unless response expectations are stated.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

10.0

/ 20

The company sets expectations about escalation and growing independence in the Fermentation Associate description, which is a useful early-career learning signal in operations work.
Arsenale Bioyards describes cross-functional collaboration (for example working with the Head of Engineering, Data and AI, vendors, and partners), which can create strong on-the-job learning if managers make time for it.
The company does not publicly describe onboarding, mentorship, 1:1s, progression frameworks, or training budgets in the role write-ups that are visible, so support quality is hard to verify.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

8.3

/ 20

The company does not publish salary ranges or benefits on the job descriptions visible via the careers board, which limits pay fairness assessment for early-career candidates.
Arsenale Bioyards shows operational stability signals like defined shift patterns and SOP-driven work for fermentation operations roles, but this is not a substitute for pay transparency.
The company has no public employee pay and benefits footprint on major review platforms yet, so there is no independent check on compensation competitiveness.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

6.3

/ 20

The company has no reviews posted on Glassdoor at the time of checking, removing a common source of early-career retention, manager quality, and promotion signals.
Arsenale Bioyards shows some repeat hiring intent through multiple seats in fermentation operations, but there is no published data on conversion, promotion rates, or tenure.
The company’s LinkedIn footprint shows a small headcount band and a limited public employee list, which is not enough to reliably track junior progression patterns over 12–24 months.