Vetted Researchers

“Robotics software engineer/researcher at Stanford PDML Lab building VisualFT, a ROS2-based visual-tactile sensing system for compliant force-control guidance in acupressure/ultrasound-style manipulation. Also interned at Neocis (dental robotics) improving safety-critical collision detection using Bullet Physics with automated validation and CI (Jenkins/CDash).”

“Robotics software candidate who designed and implemented a hierarchical motion-planning and whole-body control pipeline for a 37-state Spot robot to traverse complex terrain, using Graph of Convex Sets for safe footstep selection plus optimization-based IK and nonlinear trajectory optimization for joint trajectories/contact forces. Strong in optimization-heavy robotics workflows (PyDrake, MATLAB/Simulink) and methodical debugging down to signal-level and numerical stability; has not used ROS/ROS2 yet.”

“Public-sector-focused consultant with hands-on ownership of outbound/ABM, lead gen, and GTM strategy for early-stage and pre-launch products (including edtech). Built multi-channel campaigns spanning SEO/web copy, email, conferences, and direct outreach to state/district leaders, and created an Airtable onboarding system that cut prospect research time by 33%.”

“Robotics researcher/team lead from ASU’s Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab who rebuilt a failing soft-robotics test bench into a modular 8-Arduino, ROS 2/Python-controlled data-collection system, doubling sampling performance and dramatically reducing downtime. Currently doing thesis work on physics-informed neural network (PIRNN/RNN) modeling of a pneumatically actuated soft robotic arm using experimentally collected trajectory/pressure data.”

“At Evoke Tech, built a production LLM "Testbench" to quickly compare LLMs/embedding models and RAG strategies (semantic, hybrid BM25, re-ranking, HyDE, query expansion) to select optimal architectures for different client needs. Also developed a multi-agent, multimodal (voice/text) RAG system for live catalog retrieval and safe product recommendations using LangGraph/LangChain with LangSmith monitoring, and regularly translated PM/UX goals into concrete agent behaviors via demos and flowcharts.”

“Robotics software engineer with experience spanning embedded C++ control on microcontrollers and ROS/ROS2 production systems in automotive and marine robotics contexts (Harbinger Motors, Impossible Metals). Has deep hands-on experience debugging real-time image pipelines (DDS/QoS tuning, HIL stress testing) and building large automated test suites (1200+ tests) plus CI/CD (Dockerized Playwright tests on Jenkins).”

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time teleoperation and high-quality robot-learning data pipelines, including synchronized multimodal sensing (RGB-D, tactile, joint states) for Diffusion Policy training on a bimanual ALOHA robot. Strong ROS practitioner who debugs real-time control issues with ROS tooling and builds simulation environments in Isaac Lab and PyBullet; also packages data-collection stacks with Docker.”

“UCLA RoMeLa research assistant (since Oct 2025) building an embedded control and sensor-data platform for multi-robot coordination in a simulated warehouse. Deep hands-on experience with ROS on NVIDIA Jetson under RTOS constraints, secure MQTT/TLS telemetry, and SLAM performance optimization (including ORB-SLAM3) validated in Gazebo and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD.”

“Robotics software contributor with hands-on experience building a Gazebo/ROS(2) Mars rover simulation integrating LiDAR and image segmentation for autonomous navigation and SLAM (Nav2). Comfortable debugging low-level sim/model integration issues (URDF/XML) and building sensor-data pipelines, and has also shipped a real-world telemetry setup streaming vibration data over UDP with packet-loss mitigation.”