# David Kaufman

> Senior Software Engineer/Simulation at Cruise Automation

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer/Simulation @ Cruise Automation
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cruise Automation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineer @ Formlabs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Researched novel approaches to support placement to design an improved automatic support placement algorithm, including physics simulations and stippling-based support point distribution
Designed and implemented a crash-tolerant Linux update system
Diagnosed and mitigated 3D printer network connectivity problems
Rearchitected the desktop application to accommodate many printer types

### Embedded Linux Developer Intern @ Formlabs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA
Designed and implemented a crash-tolerant Linux update system
Created an utilized a USB fuzzing/debugging tool
Created calibration routines for a 3D printer

### Software Engineering Intern @ Yelp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Designed and engineered infrastructure for offline analysis of quarantined content.

Researched automated similarity-based classification of new types of content.

### Robotics Intern @ Vecna
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
Remodeled and programmed a wireless control system in Perl to allow Vecna’s QCBot to switch seamlessly between wireless access points.

Profiled and optimized Vecna’s Java robotics framework.

Decreased simulator CPU usage by over 10% and identified additional improvements estimated to decrease CPU usage by an additional 10%.

### Lab Assistant, Introduction To Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
Instructed and guided students in the design laboratory on circuits, controls, and robotics systems projects.

### Summer Research Intern @ Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Programmed contour-based and skeleton-based hand tracking for use in a medical simulator.

### Summer Research Intern @ Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Programmed the framework for synchronizing arbitrary data between an Android and a server, and wrote a program to automatically determine affect from physiological data.

### Summer Research Intern @ Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Programmed an Android interface for a portable intrusion detection system and worked on a virtual therapist that could express emotions.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-kaufman-42b28356

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Last updated: 2026-03-23