# Ahmed Zahra

> Staff Robotics Software Engineer at J&J

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ahmedzahra

Website: https://ahmedzahra95.wixsite.com/mysite

## Work Experience
### Staff Robotics Software Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Robotics Software Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### CTO and Cofounder @ Awenza
Jan 2020 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Auris Health, Inc
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Auris Health, Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Redwood City, California

### Robotics Research Engineer @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
- Research on aggressive maneuvers for quadcopters
- Implemented upside down flips on quadcopter using Geometric Control Algorithm in MATLAB (mapping from S by S^2 to SO(3))
- Dynamics modeling and simulation of quadcopter 
- C++ implementation of control algorithm on hardware

### Teaching Assistant for Robo3x Robotics: Dynamics and Control @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Maintaining and updating the course content. Answering questions on the discussion forum regarding relating to problems on the assignments and the labs. Holding online office hours for students.

### Robotics Software Engineer Intern @ Schlumberger
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
Worked on automating part of the manufacturing process for the Schlumberger drill bits used in the oilfield industry. Worked path planning and trajectory generation for a 7 DoF robotic arm. Programmed an Arduino in C to control custom end-effectors . Processed point cloud data from a stereo camera to create an occupancy map representation of the robot's environment. Used ROS to facilitate the communication between the different system architectures.

### MEAM Mentor @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Mentored students taking classes in Vibrations and Thermodynamics. Assisted them with homework problems, and helped them develop Engineering problem solving skills.

### Robotics Engineering Intern @ Redwing Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bari Area, Italy
Worked on creating an autonomous mowing platform for the Golf Course Industry. Designed, simulated, and implemented the control system for the vehicle using MATLAB. Worked on vehicle localization, and also sensor fusion using probabilistic methods such as Extended Kalman Filter. Programmed a micro-controller in C to send low level signal commands to actuators on the mowing platform.

### MEAM 248 Lab Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Preparing lab equipment for students. Miscellaneous prototyping tasks for the class.

### Mechanical Engineering Design Intern @ Schneider Electric
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Interned at the Badr City factory, at which I worked closely with the Mechanical Engineering team. I learned a lot about power grids, power lines, and power distribution. I worked with the mechanical design team to produce CAD and Engineering Drawings of mechanical parts of various products (according to customer specifications), such as Circuit Breakers, Feeders, etc.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant at KodLab @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Designed and conducted an experiment to determine the relationship between the torque produced by the X-Rhex leg actuators and the amount of ground penetration (in soil and sand). In the process, I made a mechanical jig that transfers the torque provided by the actuator to translational motion that can be measured. (Full research journal on the kodlab.seas.upenn.edu wiki) .


## Education
### Master of Science (MSE) in Robotics
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering with Minor in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Mechanical Engineering
ETH Zürich

### St. Fatima Language School - IGCSE

### Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree in Self-Driving Cars
Udacity


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ahmed-zahra-7a1142112

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Last updated: 2026-04-12