Vetted Reinforcement Learning Professionals

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Intern Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS2 autonomy and robotic simulation

Orono, Maine3y exp
Advanced Structures and Composites CenterUniversity of Maine

Robotics engineer/team lead who built an autonomous lunar rover for the NASA Lunabotics challenge, owning electrical systems, comms (UART/WiFi), and autonomy using RealSense + custom YOLO on a Jetson Orin Nano. Also has extensive ROS 2 experience, including creating a ROS2+Gazebo environment with ros2_control custom controllers for a large-scale additive manufacturing printer and research/thesis work in multi-robot coordination and robustness.

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Mid-level Data/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and scalable data pipelines

5y exp
AbbottClarkson University

AI/ML engineer with production experience building LLM-powered document intelligence and customer support systems in healthcare/insurance, emphasizing high-accuracy RAG, long-document processing, and robust monitoring/fallback mechanisms. Also automates and scales ML lifecycle workflows using Apache Airflow and Kubeflow, and partners closely with non-technical operations stakeholders to drive adoption.

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Satvik Singh

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Intern Machine Learning & Robotics Engineer specializing in computer vision and SLAM

Fremont, CA2y exp
CoolnessAIUC San Diego

Robotics software engineer with hands-on medical robotics experience on an automated CT-guided lung biopsy robot, building a CT-voxel-to-mesh pipeline that generates and visualizes up to 1000 collision-safe needle insertion points and ports them into robot space for IK execution. Strong ROS2 background spanning AprilTag perception, Kalman-filter state estimation, visual SLAM, and Voronoi-based motion planning, plus deployment work containerizing ORB-SLAM on ROS2 Humble and CI/CD automation at Siemens EDA using Perforce.

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Kimia Naeiji

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in robotics perception and AR/VR systems

Remote4y exp
ForterraCornell University

AI engineer with robotics perception experience at Forterra, building and deploying moving-object/obstacle detection models into real-time robot pipelines. Addressed training crashes/latency via sub-batch training and optimizer tuning, and improved debugging using ROS/ROS2 tooling with 3D voxel visualization and color-coded validation.

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Yan-Liang Chen - Junior Robotics Systems Engineer specializing in autonomous planning and control in Champaign, Illinois

Junior Robotics Systems Engineer specializing in autonomous planning and control

Champaign, Illinois2y exp
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous surface vehicles, specializing in dynamic collision avoidance and regulation-compliant navigation. Extended ROS2 Nav2 by implementing a Velocity-Obstacle-based safety filter (as a DWA critic) and encoding COLREGs, plus built an end-to-end Gazebo+ArduPilot SITL stack and a ROS2 bridge translating Nav2 commands to ArduPilot for real-world deployment.

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Nikhil Soni - Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and retrieval-augmented generation in New York, NY

Nikhil Soni

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Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and retrieval-augmented generation

New York, NY2y exp
Quant AI ResearchNYU

Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.

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Barath Kumar Jayachandran Kanchanamalini - Junior Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in UAV autonomy and embedded systems in New York, NY

Junior Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in UAV autonomy and embedded systems

New York, NY1y exp
Columbia UniversityColumbia University

Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous drones and mobile robotics: implemented a sliding mode inner-loop controller and a RealSense T265 VIO state-estimation pipeline integrated into ArduPilot EKF3 for GPS-denied indoor flight. Strong simulation-to-deployment experience (Gazebo/MAVROS to firmware), ROS2 networking/debugging, and hands-on validation through multi-sensor trials and log analysis.

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Daniel Panrong Dai - Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack development in New York, NY

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack development

New York, NY1y exp
Saige ConsultingMcGill University

Consulting-background AI practitioner who led a production LLM pipeline on Snowflake Cortex to map hundreds of thousands of messy OCR/form-based contract fields into standardized Salesforce fields, including confidence scoring and an LLM-driven feedback loop. Strong focus on real-world constraints—token limits, cost control, and evaluation without ground truth—paired with frequent stakeholder-facing progress reporting.

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Yunxi Zhu - Entry-level Robotics & Automation Engineer specializing in robot learning and manufacturing automation in Houston, TX

Yunxi Zhu

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Entry-level Robotics & Automation Engineer specializing in robot learning and manufacturing automation

Houston, TX1y exp
Applied OptoelectronicColumbia University

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.

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Rajesh Nagula - Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in real-time control and perception in Manchester, NH

Rajesh Nagula

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Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in real-time control and perception

Manchester, NH4y exp
DEKA Research & DevelopmentNYU

Robotics software engineer focused on controls and motion planning for autonomous flight systems using ROS 2 (rclcpp), Gazebo/RViz, and BehaviorTree.CPP. Has hands-on real-time control experience (1ms loop rate) and has improved system performance by tracing latency issues and refactoring vision components (singleton camera init). Also built low-latency Ethernet/TCP comms on top of the IgH Ethernet stack and uses digital-twin simulation (Gazebo, MuJoCo; beginner Isaac Sim) to validate algorithms.

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Saisureshreddy Challa - Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML, LLMs, and domain analytics in California, USA

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML, LLMs, and domain analytics

California, USA6y exp
BlackRockNortheastern University

BlackRock AI/ML engineer who built and owned a production LLM document intelligence system for regulatory and investment analysis end-to-end. They combined RAG, multi-agent validation, strong evaluation/monitoring, and reusable Python services to process 50K+ documents, cut review time 40-50%, and improve decision accuracy by about 25%.

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AJ

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

San Jose, CA4y exp
ServiceNowUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte

ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production GenAI and computer vision systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for shipping an enterprise RAG platform that cut manual review by 50% and a defect detection pipeline that reduced report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 second while maintaining high uptime and strong operational discipline.

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Sumukh Porwal

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Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in motion planning, controls, and autonomous aerial systems

Long Beach, CA1y exp
Odys AviationWorcester Polytechnic Institute

Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous eVTOL operations, including simulated autonomous ship deck landing using ROS2 Humble with perception (AprilTags) and motion planning under aircraft dynamics constraints. Has hands-on experience with multi-robot coordination, SLAM sensor-fusion fixes, and distributed robot networking (LTE + VPN), plus embedded data capture on Jetson AGX Orin and advanced control methods (MPC/CBF, differentiable learning).

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Agam Modasiya

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Mid-level GNC Software Engineer specializing in robotics, autonomy, and controls

Bastrop, Texas4y exp
The Boring CompanyRutgers School of Engineering

Robotics software engineer with hands-on sim-to-real experience: built and deployed a reinforcement-learning vision policy at The Boring Company to align a robot end effector to tunnel lining engagement holes, owning the full pipeline (SolidWorks/URDF modeling, PyBullet + Stable-Baselines3 training, and on-machine deployment). Also modified ArduPilot and tested custom drone algorithms via ROS/Gazebo using MAVROS and VICON-based localization.

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SG

Senior Digital Twin & Simulation Engineer specializing in AI-driven manufacturing automation

Chicago, IL9y exp
Engineering Group, Industries eXcellence Division (Eng IndX)Purdue University

PhD-trained engineer with ~3.5 years of consulting experience building simulation/ML-driven manufacturing software. Deployed an ML surrogate model as a .NET C# DLL integrated with MES workflows, and resolved a critical pre-production latency issue by redesigning serialization/storage. Also built Python-based integrations across CAD/CAE tools and cloud material databases using an XML data model, with a strong interest in digital twins and real-to-sim/sim-to-real robotics workflows.

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Mihir Trivedi

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Junior Machine Learning & Quant Research Engineer specializing in low-latency data and trading systems

New York, NY3y exp
Astera HoldingsColumbia University

Applied ML to physical EV fleet systems at ST Labs, building a real-time CNN-LSTM fault prediction pipeline from streaming vehicle telemetry and addressing live data alignment issues via resampling/interpolation and buffered inference. Also developed a V2G/G2V energy transfer algorithm to automate charging/discharging for profit optimization, and made high-impact low-latency pipeline decisions at Astera Holdings using profiling, replay testing, and live A/B validation.

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Ludovic Morin

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Entry-Level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in deep learning and statistical modeling

Québec City, Canada0y exp
Laval UniversityCornell University

Cornell master’s student (CS/Stats) focused on research-heavy ML projects: implemented a sparsity-driven RL approach (DAPD + Soft Actor-Critic) that maintained stable learning even with ~95% of weights removed in OpenAI Gym continuous-control tasks. Also worked on diffusion-based computer vision with conditioning and latency-focused U-Net choices, and scaled unsupervised community detection on a 50k-node/800k-edge Reddit graph via BFS subgraph sampling.

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Shao Rong Su - Senior AI Research Engineer specializing in LLM agents and predictive maintenance

Shao Rong Su

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Senior AI Research Engineer specializing in LLM agents and predictive maintenance

5y exp
University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington

At Delta Electronics, partnered with automotive firmware teams to productionize an LLM-based coding assistant for identifying safety standard violations and generating bug-fix guidance. Built an agentic workflow with stepwise context extraction, similarity search, and a separate judge model for scoring reasoning/retrieval, and drove internal adoption through pain-point discovery and tailored technical demos using real firmware code.

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Akshit Modi - Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and MLOps in Remote, USA

Akshit Modi

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and MLOps

Remote, USA5y exp
TempusArizona State University

Healthcare/clinical ML practitioner who built and productionized ClinicalBERT-based pipelines to extract and standardize oncology EHR data, improving downstream model F1 from 0.81 to 0.92 while controlling training cost via LoRA/QLoRA. Experienced orchestrating real-time AWS ETL/ML workflows (Glue, Lambda, SageMaker) and partnering with clinicians using SHAP-based interpretability, contributing to an 18% reduction in readmissions and full adoption.

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Aditya Jaiswal - Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI in Carlsbad, CA

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI

Carlsbad, CA1y exp
ViasatUSC

Full-stack engineer with startup ownership experience (Aiir) building 15+ TypeScript/Go microservice APIs on GCP Cloud Run with Kafka-based async event streaming and React CRM integrations for billing/analytics. Strong post-launch operator who tuned Oracle performance (partitioning/indexing/query optimization) and validated a 23% retrieval-time reduction via AWR, and has a quality/DevSecOps mindset (94% Pytest coverage, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Twistlock, CloudWatch) including migrating 18+ production CI/CD pipelines.

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Rifat Khan - Mid-level Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer specializing in scientific computing, CFD, and ML systems in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rifat Khan

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Mid-level Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer specializing in scientific computing, CFD, and ML systems

Santa Fe, New Mexico6y exp
New Mexico Public Regulation CommissionUSC

Robotics/control-focused engineer who built and validated a series elastic actuator control stack end-to-end (dynamic modeling, torque/position control, simulation, and experimental real-time debugging on hardware). Deep simulation background (OpenFOAM/COMSOL/Abaqus) and practical reproducibility tooling (Docker/CI), with conceptual ROS/ROS2 knowledge and confidence ramping into ROS-based stacks.

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Vaibhav Sharma - Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data platforms in Remote, USA

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data platforms

Remote, USA5y exp
GoogleIndiana University Bloomington

AI/ML engineer who built a production agentic system to automate computational research experiments (simulation execution, parameter exploration, and numerical analysis) and mitigated context-window failures using constrained tool-calling/prompt-chaining patterns in LangChain with OpenAI tool-enabled models. Also has adtech/big-data pipeline experience at InMobi, orchestrating Spark jobs in Airflow to filter bot-like user IDs and publish clean IDs to an online NoSQL store for live serving, plus Apache open-source collaboration experience.

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Suloni Praveen - Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and ML systems in Los Angeles, CA

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and ML systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp
Easley-Dunn ProductionsUSC

Built an end-to-end Next.js/TypeScript LLM-based scientific PDF analyzer using local Ollama/Llama inference to prioritize privacy and cost, producing structured research artifacts (e.g., authors/methods/findings) with ~92% extraction accuracy. At Qualtrics, helped replace a batch pipeline with a real-time, low-latency ML inference service (Python/Go on Kubernetes) using Redis caching, Grafana-based observability, and graceful fallbacks to protect UX during failures.

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Michael Cohen - Executive Data & AI Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and marketing analytics in New York, NY

Michael Cohen

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Executive Data & AI Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and marketing analytics

New York, NY17y exp
PLUS CompanyUniversity of Connecticut

AI strategy and execution consultant currently doing contract/ad hoc work and planning to formalize the business with partnerships, GTM strategy, pro forma financials, and marketing/tech investments focused on AI productivity, governance, and security. Background includes founding startup teams, M&A/integration, and operating leadership in VC-backed scale-ups (Insight Ventures, EIP, Zetta Ventures) plus C-suite experience in a global PE-backed holding company, with 20+ years of published work in prediction and decision systems.

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