# Jami Rose

> Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Lightship

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Mechanical Design Engineer @ Lightship
Jan 2025 – Present | South San Francisco, California, United States

### Mechanical Design Engineer @ Lightship
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | South San Francisco, California, United States

### Product Realization Lab Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
• Worked with a 20 person cohort of graduate students to run and maintain Stanford’s largest maker space.
• Coached students through Stanford’s core manufacturing and design curriculum, using hands-on methods to empower students to bring their ideas to life. Core manufacturing methods taught include manual & CNC machining, injection molding, casting, welding, sheet metal working, woodworking, and rapid prototyping.

### Mechanical Design Engineer @ Lightship
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Carpentry Apprentice @ Dunton Woodworking
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Santa Cruz, California, United States

### Mac Product Design Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, California
• Worked cross-functionally to design and validate a new embedded track pad module for mass production.
• Responsibilities included 2D & 3D CAD, mechanical simulation & testing, vendor communication, manufacturing line oversight, failure analysis, and technical presentation of results.

### Company Dancer @ Boston Community Dance Project
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts

### Dancer & Artistic Director @ MIT Fixation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts

### Visiting Researcher at Oceans Institute @ The University of Western Australia
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Prototyped a low-cost open-source temperature and pressure data logger for use in threatened coral reef ecosystems. Conducted a field study in Mauritius to test our prototype against conventional oceanographic instruments.

### Undergraduate Researcher at Bioinstrumentation Lab @ MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
•  Designed and built a parallel spherical rotation mechanism for use in pest reduction farming equipment.
•  Used only two actuators to control 3D motion along the surface of a sphere. Solved the forwards kinematics of the mechanism as well as the mathematical inversion problem to enable position control.

### Audio Product Design Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California

### Application Engineer @ Markforged
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Watertown, Massachusetts

### Undergraduate Researcher at Mediated Matter Group @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mechanical design and testing for Fiberbot.

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/fiberbots/overview/

### Undergraduate Researcher at Living Mobile Group @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mechanical design and testing for DuoSkin.

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/2ndskin/overview/


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Course 2)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

### High School
Hanover Park High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jami-rose-29513a114

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Last updated: 2026-04-13