# Claire Dawson

> Forward Deployed Engineer at Gecko Robotics

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/clairedawson

I am former DI Student-Athlete in the College of Engineering and on the Women's Soccer Team at the University of Michigan where I studied Industrial and Operations Engineering and Computer Science. 

I am currenlty earning a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Columbia University. 

I am passionate about computer science across many fields - whether that be within the future of engineering, healthcare, business, social work, and so much more! I enjoy building algorithms for logical decision making, machine learning, data mining, and full-stack applications! I am seeking a career where I can continue to learn and grow through challenging projects that better the world around us!

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Gecko Robotics
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Woven by Toyota
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Software Engineer on Arene Vehicle Platform

### Post-Graduate Engineer at SpaceX @ SpaceX
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Hawthorne, California, United States
Interned on the Change Team within Flight Reliability at SpaceX this summer. I served as a full-stack software engineer building two flask apps that would serve as a platform for easier access across the company and make for more efficient searching and changes to the company databases.

### Research Analyst @ Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Create simulation and optimization data models using C++ and other modeling tools to solve scheduling, resource allocation, and socio-economic correlation problems to improve process efficiency across the Michigan Medicine system

### Global Markets Summer Analyst @ Deutsche Bank
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Rotated on three fixed income desks within the investment bank:
Distressed Products Group, Infrastructure & Energy, Securitized Products
Sales & Trading. Analyzed financials for various distressed companies, computed financial
statements and analyzed risks for several ESG(Environmental, Social, and
Governance) projects, and learned about different types of securitized
bonds. Built a Python program that would convert bond tags from Bloomberg text
format to a more readable table in excel


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science
Columbia University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Industrial Engineering, Minor in Computer Science
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/claire-dawson22

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Last updated: 2026-04-13