# Jack Yang > building new robots Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jackyang ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer, Localization and Mapping @ Nuro Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, CA Mapping and Localization systems for autonomous driving cars. - Led the design and engineering of ML-based localization system that unlocks accurate localization for AV using cheap and widely available aerial data. Work featured in ICRA 2025. - Engineered large-scale mapping data pipeline, graphical tools, and storage for multi-city HD map for challenging ODDs such as highway, complex interchanges, and dense urban regions. ### Software Engineer, Perception @ Phiar Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, California Pose estimation and camera-based perception system for in-car augmented reality. Acquired by google. ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh SLAM, dense mapping, and 3D reconstruction. ### Undergraduate Student Researcher in Robotics @ Harvey Mudd College Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Claremont, CA Robot motion controller, path/motion planning, traffic algorithm design, and 3D traffic coordination. ### Machine Shop Proctor @ Harvey Mudd College Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Claremont, CA Teach students to safely operate heavy machinery. HMC machine shop includes CNC mills, lathe, table saw, vertical band saw, metal shear, and drill presses. Instruct students to accomplish class projects such as hammer and screw driver. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Apple Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cupertino, California ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Robotics Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering Harvey Mudd College ### The Webb Schools of California ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jack-yang-086226a5 - Portfolio: https://jyiyang.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/jackyang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jackyang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31