# Dave Abrams

> AI Research Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Luma AI
Jan 2025 – Present
Research Enginer, Evals

Mostly working with Agentic AI systems, but also large multimodal foundational models.

### Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Develop and maintain software tools for evaluating autonomous vehicle performance.
Contribute to the design and implementation of ML tooling and infrastructure that enhances the overall ML development process.
Design and implement automated ML pipelines to streamline model training, evaluation, and deployment.
Monitor and optimize ML pipelines to improve efficiency, reduce cost and latency, and ensure data quality.
Write and maintain clear and concise documentation for ML models, pipelines, and tools.
Stay up-to-date with ML advancements and identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.

### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Improve behavior of Autonomous driver in a wide variety of interactive behaviors, leveraging techniques in Optimization and ML.
• Investigate behavioral issues, generate solution categories, and execute on implementation of launches.
• Collaborate with ML / Infra / Product teams to prioritize solutions that align with time sensitive needs while balancing strategic agenda.
• Design solutions that span multiple components in technical stack, influencing solutions developed by dozens of engineers. 
• Full stack solution development: including eval, algorithms, modeling and deployment optimization.
• Relevant skills: optimization algorithms (iLQR), autonomous vehicle quality and safety debugging, evaluation methodology, machine learning, developer interfaces, C++ and Python.

### Director Of Research and Development @ Miku
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### Head Of Research And Development @ EGW Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New Jersey

### Analyst @ DHPC Technologies Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Woodbridge, NJ

### Engineer @ CACI International Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### DSP Software Engineer @ Harris RF Communications (Outdated)
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009

### Test Engineer @ Harris RF Communications (Outdated)
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineernig
Rutgers University

### Masters in Music Production Technology and Innovation
Berklee College of Music

### M.S in Electrical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dave-abrams-b322943

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Last updated: 2026-04-13