# Arash Bastanfard

> Problem Solver

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

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Figure
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Working with an amazing set of coworkers on fun and challenging problems, come join us!!!

### Engineer @ Applied Intuition
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Vehicle Platform

### Staff Software integration Engineer @ Tesla
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Etherloop

### Sr. Software Integration Engineer @ Tesla
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Etherloop

### Sr. Application Engineer @ NextInput is now Qorvo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Transmissions Control Engineer [intern] @ General Motors
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Milford MI
-Key resource for DFSS (Design For Six Sigma) study on multiple closed loop interactions
- Analyzed transmissions data on a dynamometer
-Wrote Matlab scripts for analyzing dynamometer data 
-Worked on PI and anti-windup strategies for transmission control

### Course Facilitator @ UC Berkeley EE40LX
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Course Facilitated the online course by answering discussion board questions and writing home work solutions. I was also a lab assistant for this course. Built a popsicle robot before the students started their builds, so that I could aid in debugging.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Wu Group Thermal Electric Lab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Our goal was to see if the thermal electric figure of merit for bismuth telluride could be increased by ion bombardment using iodine ions. This was to create impurities, voids, and gaps in the bismuth telluride thin films so that the thermal conductivity would drop, which would then keep the heat gradient for the longer period of time. I did an AFM study to see the effects of wet KOH etching of bismuth telluride. After the KOH study, I used tungsten nano-tips to transport the thin films onto the floating platforms to further review the effects of heat before and after ion bombardment.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Design for Nanomanufacturing Lab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Wrote a literature review on aspect ratio dependent deep reactive ion etching. This paper examined critical components that cause features to fail. Failures in terms of electron tunneling due to the deterioration of the side walls. Also examined the causes of bowing, undercut, and mask deteration due to ion bombardment.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arash-bastanfard-65518367

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Last updated: 2026-04-11