# Jesse Gilbert 🔸 > Software engineer at the nonprofit CivAI in Berkeley Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jessegilbert ## Work Experience ### Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer @ CivAI Jan 2024 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States ### SPAR Mentor for AI Risk Demos Stream @ Supervised Program for Alignment Research Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 ### MARS Mentor for AI Risk Demos Stream @ Cambridge AI Safety Hub Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 ### President @ Tufts Effective Altruism Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Medford, Massachusetts, United States ### Campus Leader @ Notion Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 - Organized events at Tufts to help students become more organized and productive using Notion, a fantastic, all-in-one, free productivity and organizational tool ### Mechanical R & D Intern @ Commonwealth Fusion Systems Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States - Designed cooling systems for a high vacuum test stand for testing a high-power RF antenna in a strong magnetic field - Conducted comprehensive calculations to determine a pump, heat exchanger, sensors, and fittings to meet system requirements, considering the energy absorbed by the coolant, flow rate necessary, and pressure drop induced due to major and minor head losses - Designed fabricated components and system architecture in NX, using a P&ID to pre-plan the placement of critical components - Drafted technical drawings utilizing GD&T for fabricated parts and assembled Bill of Materials for procurement of purchased parts - Designed standard operating procedures for solder VPI manufacturing processes to clarify and optimize workflows - Coordinated a team for the assembly and commissioning of the high-vacuum test chamber - Considered safety implications in all aspects of my work including planning, design, assembly, and testing ### Automation Engineering Intern @ Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States - Designed in SolidWorks an automated system to convey material through a [REDACTED] machine to vastly increase throughput of a manufacturing process integral to the manufacturing of the hydrogen fuel cell - Created technical drawings for machinists and sourced parts - Built and tested the system to ensure it met requirements and increased process efficiency 50x by enabling the use of this new machine - Programmed a and simple pushbutton interface to control the motor and automate material conveyance ### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Cleo Robotics Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Developed a proprietary mobility system (which is in the patent process) for the company’s main product, the Dronut - Programmed a control system from the ground up, including PID loop, to vastly improve the system’s controllability - Designed in SolidWorks, 3D printed, tested, and iterated on various complex parts for this project - Wired, soldered, and manufactured various electrical and mechanical components for $80,000 worth of drones (8 Dronuts) ### Summer Research Intern @ Tufts CEEO Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Medford, Massachusetts, United States - Gathered frequency data, conducted modal analysis, and created a physically realistic animation of oscillations of a plate with the end goal of conducting the same analysis on a violin - Developed the procedure for this analysis and animation and wrote a Python program to convert the frequency data to the amplitudes for the different modes of vibration - Designed, built, and programmed a system of robotic tools and programs to capture 3D video with the Japanese startup SwipeVideo. The system would automatically record a robot conducting some repeatable action up to 128 times and automatically parse and separate the 128 clips that SwipeVideo’s software would finally combine into a single video - Developed a fault-tolerant Python program to parse up to 128 camera angles using the Fast Fourier Transform to distinguish each - Created a “smart motor” with Arduino and built, programmed, and designed sample projects with the Raspberry Pi Build HAT and SPIKE Prime for Professor Chris Rogers ### Lead Instructor @ Empow Studios Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Lexington, Massachusetts, United States - Taught STEM topics including programming, 3D printing, robotics, and animation to kids from 2nd to 8th grade ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science double major Tufts University ### Lexington High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessewgilbert - Website: https://jessewgilbert.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/jessegilbert JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jessegilbert/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01