Vetted Graduate Research Assistants

“Full-stack engineer working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, building developer-facing interfaces for AI voice agents in XR/immersive environments plus telemetry-heavy analytics dashboards. Experienced in Postgres telemetry data modeling and performance tuning, and in designing durable multi-step LLM pipelines with idempotency, retries, and strong observability; has operated in fast-moving startup-like teams (Biocom, HandshakeAI).”

“Built and deployed a production AI invention/patent review platform that compares invention submissions against patent rules to provide instant feedback, reportedly cutting legal team review time by ~80%. Learned Snowflake Cortex LLMs and production deployment (Docker + AWS) on the job, and validated system quality through human-in-the-loop testing with experienced legal stakeholders.”

“Backend engineer with legal-tech and AI workflow experience: built JurisAI, an end-to-end legal research system using OCR + embeddings + Pinecone vector search to deliver citation-grounded LLM answers with safe failure modes (~90% recall@K). Also led a GW Law metadata migration into Caspio with batch validation and parallel rollout, and has strong FastAPI/GCP production reliability and observability practices.”

“Robotics software engineer who led an energy-aware persistent monitoring project on TurtleBot4/ROS2, building the full stack from simulation and motion control to an energy consumption model and control algorithm implementation. Developed custom ROS2 Python nodes (battery + cmd_vel logging), integrated with Nav2, and handled multi-robot coordination via DDS while troubleshooting network/QoS issues. Also built and tuned a human-aware navigation behavior using Gazebo-based testing and data-driven threshold optimization.”

“Mechanical/manufacturing professional (not a software/Next.js candidate) who emphasizes applying Lean/Six Sigma-style manufacturing quality and continuous improvement tools (Kaizen, PFMEA/DFMEA, DOE, DMAIC, root cause analysis). Target base salary stated as 130,000.”

“Backend engineer with deep Kafka/FastAPI microservices experience who redesigned a notification pipeline to cut end-to-end latency from ~5s to ~3s (including custom partition assignment and consumer tuning). Led a high-stakes ClickUp-to-Oracle migration of 1M+ records using idempotent ETL, reconciliation, and shadow deployment to achieve >99% integrity with zero downtime, and has hands-on production security implementation with Django/DRF (JWT + RBAC).”

“Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics at Arizona State University who built an end-to-end LLM-driven task execution framework enabling collaborative robots to convert high-level natural language instructions into safe, executable ROS actions. Implemented robust monitoring, failure detection, and automatic replanning, and addressed real-world issues like timestamp/frame-transform mismatches and heterogeneous robot interoperability using adapter nodes.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on SLAM, ROS2, and distributed multi-robot systems experience. Improved MAST3R-SLAM loop-closure place recognition by changing the ASMK/ASMKS retrieval similarity metric (L2→L1) and validated on 9 TUM sequences, keeping near real-time performance despite a 25–30% retrieval cost increase. Also tuned MoveIt motion planning for a 6-DOF arm (12% higher maze completion rate) and built MQTT mesh communications for ESP32-based AMRs, using Gazebo+Docker and CI-style automation for reproducible testing and deployment.”

“LLM/AI agent engineer with consulting/contract experience (Kanhaiya Consulting LLC) who deployed a production AI agent to automate BIM list workflows end-to-end—from database understanding and data cleaning to automated visualizations/dashboards. Worked around restricted real-time data access by generating synthetic data and improving outputs via supervised fine-tuning, and uses AWS-based LLMOps observability (Opic/OPEC) plus hybrid retrieval (vector+BM25 with reranking) to optimize relevance, latency, and cost.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

“Built a production automated resume matching system using Python, FAISS vector search, and Selenium-based job scraping, including mitigation for IP blocking and heterogeneous site structures. Also develops LLM/RAG applications with LangChain, using Pydantic-guardrailed structured outputs and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation (including a project focused on tone/semantics for a 3D avatar’s emotional responses).”