Vetted Research Assistants in Massachusetts

“Software-focused candidate who built a data monitoring pipeline during a hedge fund internship, integrating real databases and an email API to notify teams when data was ready. Comfortable working through legacy/scrappy code and uses LLMs to accelerate comprehension and delivery, with an emphasis on thorough testing and clear communication with stakeholders/customers.”

“Software engineering intern who built an internal AI-agent automation using the Gemini API to reduce manual CRM data entry, iterating prompts closely with analysts to address precision concerns. Also worked on a medical image-diagnostics LLM project involving fine-tuning and benchmarking multiple model approaches, and has quant/sales-trading experience building automated pricers for complex options and persuading sales teams to adopt them with ROI-focused metrics.”

“Robotics researcher focused on learning-based navigation: builds sub-goal generation and cost-to-go models (Bayesian network-based) integrated with motion planning and MPC/NMPC control. Has hands-on ROS 2 package development across vehicles, drones, and manipulators, and uses a broad simulation stack (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, PyBullet, PX4) to test and integrate systems.”

“Built and deployed an Azure-based, fine-tuned CLIP visual retrieval system at Staples for a ~300k-item product catalog, improving edge-case recall by 12% by engineering a custom delta-similarity/dynamic-margin loss. Also has robotics experience using ROS2 for sensor/compute orchestration, including GPS-time-synchronized sensor triggering for robot swarms and latency-bounded optical-flow benchmarking for edge deployment.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”

“Master’s robotics candidate at Northeastern (Silicon Synapse Lab) who built and tuned an NMPC for the M4 multi-modal morphobot to achieve high-speed (>10 m/s) aggressive flight maneuvers and even hover under a full rotor failure, using MATLAB/CasADi/Simulink/Simscape with IPOPT. Also has ROS/ROS 2 experience spanning SLAM/navigation on a UGV and GPS/IMU sensor-fusion + dead-reckoning with custom ROS 2 nodes/messages, with a strong simulation-first and real-time debugging approach.”

“Robotics-focused engineer with co-op experience building and debugging embedded C++/Python drivers for time-of-flight sensing on a Flex Stacker product, plus automation of large-scale test data collection via Google Drive/Sheets APIs to enable parallel robot testing. Also has ROS2 sensor-driver experience (GPS/RTK/IMU with custom messages/ROSbags) and is building a side project integrating Whisper-based live transcription with chunked abstractive summarization in a latency-aware pipeline.”

“Robotics software builder who developed a solo fault-adaptive robotic arm: current-based joint health monitoring feeding an ESP32, ROS 2/MoveIt 2 motion planning that adapts to joint failures, and a custom brute-force IK solver to overcome URDF/MoveIt singularity issues. Also worked on real-time 12-microphone sensor-fusion audio processing for drone navigation, resolving buffer/noise problems with multithreading and chunked sampling; experienced with Webots/CoppeliaSim and learning Isaac Sim.”

“Built and productionized a recommendation system from notebook prototype into a low-latency, scalable Cloud Run service using Docker, FastAPI, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and MLOps tooling (Vertex AI, MLflow). Experienced diagnosing real-time workflow issues using structured logging/ELK and GCP metrics, including resolving intermittent 504s by fixing unbounded SQL and adding caching. Also partners with sales/customer teams (Wasabi) to deliver tailored demos, troubleshoot, and drive onboarding/adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”