# Jay Lanzafane

> AV Software Engineer at Helm.ai

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

## Work Experience
### AV Software Engineer @ Helm.ai
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Cruise
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Autonomy Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer - Motion Planning and Controls @ Scotty Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Systems Analyst - Group 101: ISR Systems and Architectures @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016
-Developed statistical GMTI radar models and real-time tracking simulations 
-Built detection and SNR visualization toolkit for georectified data from an airborne RF sensor
-Served as Flight Test Director for the the development of a novel airborne RF sensor
-Prototyped neural network and support vector machine for hyperspectral material identification
-Project lead to develop framework for quantifying the trustworthiness of open-source intelligence 
-Optimized Gaussian mixture models with learning curves for classification problems
-Assessed Hyperspectral Imaging and detection processing for its utility in alternate mission areas
-Performed analysis for a target tracking system using a network of distributed sensors
-Have briefed a number of technical presentations for project sponsors and internal review, including a sponsor presentation in Washington D.C. and an internal, Division-level Seminar.

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Bose Corporation
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering - Robotics
Boston University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst

### Mechanical Engineering and Physics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jlanzafane
- Portfolio: https://jaylanzafane.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-10