Vetted Research Assistants

“Unreal Engine 5 gameplay/systems developer who led major core features for the Early Access Steam city builder Geopogo Cities: Windsor Detroit, including an end-to-end building placement system tightly integrated with economy, AI pedestrians (Mass AI/Zone Graph/State Trees), and procedural city block generation. Also built a third-person exploration layer with character customization, stamina, and animation retargeting on top of the City Sample Crowd framework, plus shipped player-driven UX improvements based on live Early Access feedback.”

“Research-focused software engineer who builds performance-critical Python/C++ systems emphasizing correctness, state-transition precision, and distributed coordination. Created an automated simulation-based testing/validation framework for quantum programs that caught subtle logic/type errors early, reduced debugging time, and improved developer confidence through strong observability and scalable test generation.”

“Master’s-level IoT course project that the candidate helped evolve into a research lab effort by “ROSifying” a soil-fertility detection rover (autonomous navigation within a GPS geofence, sensor fusion, and rover-to-base-station telemetry via NRF24 to a Raspberry Pi dashboard). Also built a ROS/Gazebo vision-based teleoperation system using a SigLIP hand-gesture model mapped to geometry_msgs/Twist, and improved stability by instrumenting and filtering a latency-prone perception-to-control pipeline.”

“Robotics software engineer with internship experience at Lucid Motors building a mapping/localization pipeline that fuses LiDAR, camera, and GPS into high-fidelity 3D maps for autonomy/ADAS. Strong in SLAM and multi-robot systems—has modified ROS/ROS2 SLAM packages (FAST-LIO2, LIO-SAM) at the source level, optimized real-time multi-drone coordination for low-latency data sharing, and used Gazebo + Docker to simulate and deploy research robotics stacks.”

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“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 shipped a production LLM-powered RAG system at Upstart enabling natural-language search across 50k+ scattered internal technical docs. Delivered sub-300ms p95 latency for ~50 active users with strong hallucination safeguards (retrieval-first, thresholds, citations) plus robust testing/monitoring and cost controls (prompt caching cutting API spend ~20%).”

“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.”

“Data scientist with hands-on experience building an XGBoost-based customer segmentation/churn risk scoring model used by sales and marketing teams. Emphasizes production-grade practices—efficient SQL for large-scale data pulls, rigorous data validation/testing, and scalable, modular Python code designed to support multiple customer types.”