# Ankita Joshi > Staff Engineer, Systems & Safety @ Cobot Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ankitajoshi ## Work Experience ### Staff System Safety Engineer @ Cobot Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Santa Clara, CA ### Senior System Safety Engineer @ Cobot Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Senior System Engineer, Autonomy @ Supernal Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Fremont, California, United States Safety for Pilot Situational Awareness and ML runtime assurance for aviation ### Senior System Engineer @ Argo AI Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States Graduate Internship. Working on Sensing, Perception, and OTA Update Systems ### Graduate Research Fellow @ U.S. Department of Transportation Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Autonomous vehicles and bystander privacy risk modeling. Authored “Designing Human-Centered Risk Frameworks for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles and Bystander Privacy” ASME IDETC 2022 ### Lead System Safety Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles @ General Motors Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 Centralized Diagnostics and Feature Monitoring for UltraCruise (L3); Driver Handover and Assistance System 2022+ SuperCruise (L2) ### Control Software Engineer - Automated Driving @ General Motors Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Milford, Michigan, United States Automatic Emergency Braking Feature for 2021+ SuperCruise (L2) ### Undergraduate Researcher @ NASA Ames Research Center Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 Controls for tensegrity-based robotic platforms under NASA AMES-funded research. Co-authored “Design, Simulation, and Testing of a Flexible Actuated Spine for Quadruped Robots” (arXiv:1804.06527) ### Product Design Intern @ Autodesk Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Mechanical design, prototyping, and manufacturing for low-volume production for Autodesk Foundation’s hardware investment portfolio companies. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering UC Berkeley College of Engineering ### Master of Public Policy - MPP in Technology Policy University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering; Concentration in Controls and Product Design UC Berkeley College of Engineering ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ankitanj --- Source: https://flows.cv/ankitajoshi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ankitajoshi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13