Vetted Research Assistants

“AI/full-stack engineer with experience spanning startup product building at Twinly, enterprise analytics at Zoho, and high-stakes life sciences ML at Wave Life Sciences. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript + FastAPI product execution with rigorous AI evaluation, retrieval optimization, and human-in-the-loop design, delivering measurable outcomes like 75% fewer analytics requests, 20% fewer failed experiments, and MVP delivery 3 weeks early.”

Nithyashree Raghunathan

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems

Santa Clara, CA5y exp

“QA/data pipeline engineer with hands-on AI product building experience, spanning enterprise AWS migration testing for Belgium postal services and personal multi-agent systems in fintech and recruiting. Stands out for combining rigorous validation and production stability work with modern LLM orchestration, guardrails, and messy-document normalization workflows.”

“Built across data, backend, analytics, and visualization-heavy applications, including a nonprofit financial forecasting app, large-scale insurance model analysis at Mercury Insurance, and a publicly deployed soccer analytics dashboard. Stands out for combining machine learning, large-dataset SQL work, and practical production improvements like cutting dashboard load times to under two seconds and refactoring codebases for smoother team handoff.”

“Robotics software engineer with semiconductor wafer-handling automation experience at Mattson Technology, building C++ control software for ATM and vacuum robots coordinating through a load-lock (pressure/door/pump sequencing). Implemented multi-vendor communications with auto-detection across SECS serial and TCP/IP, and validated behavior using simulation + GUI animation, logging/sniffers, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; currently self-studying ROS 2.”

“Robotics/AV engineer with strong ROS2 and autonomy stack integration experience, including bringing Autoware Universe up on a real Lexus autonomous vehicle platform. Also built a hierarchical reinforcement learning proof-of-concept for Boston Dynamics Spot (navigation + manipulation) and tackled sim-to-real challenges by implementing PD torque conversion for Jetson-based hardware; improved localization accuracy via GNSS+EKF fusion with a reported 28% drift reduction.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

“Founding engineer at an edtech startup who combines hands-on engineering leadership with advanced AI-native development workflows. They’ve built an AI grading pipeline and a multi-agent SDLC tool, and stand out for treating AI agents like an engineering team with planning, parallel execution, QA, and rigorous validation.”