2 x 4 month Internships
Uber ATG
From September 2017 to December 2017 and May 2018 to August 2018, I worked at Uber ATG on their embedded systems team.
After parting ways with my former startup, I still had many thoughts as to how one would build a large engineering team to solve the self-driving car problem. One of my goals was to compare my own thoughts and understanding with an existing company to "close the loop" on my understanding of how to build a team of engineers in a robotics field. My internship at Uber was a great experience.
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While there, I had the opportunity to be involved in a diverse range of projects related to their next generation self-driving vehicle system. Most of my work was confidential, but broadly I worked on the following projects.
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Developed a system to control the rotation of a Lidar allowing for all sensors on all vehicles to be synchronized in their rotation. Built simulations to model the system and tune the controller as well as numerous tools developed in Python to interface with the sensor, auto characterize the system and validate controller performance.
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Architected, integrated and benchmarked various power system configurations designed to supply power redundantly to the self-driving platform
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Independently developed and facilitated FCC testing of the next generation telecommunication radio module for the self-driving platform
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Developed many different breakout and interface boards for both my projects and existing projects to help facilitate production, testing and development
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