# Alicia Alarie

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aliciaalarie

## Work Experience
### Test and equipment design engineer (software) @ Joby Aviation
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2022 – Present
• Backend development, including recommender system.
• Building minimum viable product for non-technical founders.
• Pitching to client and negotiating contracts.

### Software Engineer @ Hellometer
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Frontend design with react hooks.
• Integrated database to store customer contact information.
• Created visualizations of restaurant service times for customers.

### Data Science Fellow @ The Data Incubator
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Created a website to help customers find and buy clothing items in the same style as an input image of their choosing using an autoencoder network and database of items scraped from a retail website.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Davis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Assisted open-source projects using Arduinos and Raspberry Pi; lectured and mentored more than 200 students in design process, design iteration, and presentation skills

### Electrical Engineer @ Novasentis, Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
-Shortened validation testing time dramatically by creating machine learning models to extract features predictive of performance
-Set product use guidelines by measuring actuator perception for different power levels
-Automated data analysis of haptic actuator performance
-Demonstrated product viability to key stakeholders by designing experiments for comparison to similar products in MATLAB
-Contributed to company buyout by delivering visualizations of product's effectiveness for Board of Directors

### Electrical Engineer @ National Security Technologies, LLC (NSTec)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Livermore, CA
- Ensured Fusion Energy experiments were accurately measured by conducting calibration analysis of high energy cameras and storing calibration history in a SQL database
-Helped secure funding for a $400K project to test electrical design for digitizer board in a solid-state streak camera and created visualizations of the design's performance using MATLAB
- Shortened data collection time by hours via automating laser shots and measurements on a variety of sensors
-Create and improve existing image processing codes in IDL that quantify spatial and temporal resolution, dynamic range, and provide a warp correction mask for x-ray and optical streak cameras.

### Lab Tech @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
-Improved Xbox Kinect depth sensor chip design by building out code base to analyze and automate analysis of image data from 80,000 designs
-Created capability to explore chip designs faster by automating the production of PDF reports using MATLAB

### Electrical Engineer @ SoundFit, LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Leandro, Ca
Design and implement upgrades to electrical systems including PCB layout for 3D Scanner

### Electrical Engineer Intern @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Livermore, CA
•	Operated and analyzed S-Parameter measurements from Network Analyzer on cables and components to be used in NIF
•	Analyzed TDR and RF Injection testing data on cables being commissioned into NIF
•	Modeled Impedance Profile of high speed framing camera using lossless transmission line circuit model in LT Spice
•	Constructed simulation of crosstalk phenomenon in high speed framing camera using MATLAB

### Student Researcher, Music Research Laboratory @ University of Rochester
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Rochester, NY
•	Conducted research in sound localization by characterizing transfer function of human ear
•	Created interactive sound source control program using head-related transfer functions in MATLAB
•	Presented poster at Regional Society of Physics Students Symposium, REU program, and University of Rochester
•	Evidenced object oriented programming, digital signal processing and presentation skills


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Rochester
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alarie

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Last updated: 2026-03-22