# Jessica Hito

> Software Engineer at Mashgin

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jessicahito

Let’s work together to build specialized, accessible, and responsible AI applications to make everyday life better. 

My previous projects include building AI infra for Google Gemini in Workspace and researching human-in-the-loop state estimators within MIT’s Learning & Intelligent Systems Group. I’m always open to chatting about socially responsible technologies and initiatives related to autonomy, robotics, natural language understanding, and artificial intelligence, so feel free to shoot me an email at simply.jessica.yu@gmail.com.

Please note that at this time I am not interested in working on fintech or ads.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Mashgin
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Integrations Team
Designed, built, and launched performant, end-to-end automated pricebook ingestion platform across client verticals, migrating many high traffic locations during live service
Reworked IoT fleet’s network connections with several third party peripheral devices (payment reader, weight scale, facial recognition)
Built human-in-the-loop pose upload pipeline for unknown items captured by kiosk fleet 
Primary engineer owning integrations instrumental for large-scale expansion into new ski vertical

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Platform Team, Gemini for Workspace

- Built and launched full stack logging framework platform-wide analytics for Side Panel in Gmail, Docs, Slides, Drive, etc.
- Implemented multimodal processing pipeline for PDF understanding

### Software Engineer @ Kargo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Designed and built label extraction layer to  deduplicate images and structured data from same physical label using multi-camera spatial context
- Improved human-in-the-loop system for reviewing/correcting label readings based on order manifests
- Introduced confidence scoring for label readings

### Software Engineer @ Nuro
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
Routing Team
Localization & Mapping/Commercialization

Designed and implemented distributed simulation and visualization of 
routable components of third party maps to predict serviceable consumer demand nationwide for partner businesses
Lead project to focus Nuro’s first party mapping operations on regions that can most effectively expand serviceability according to above results

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, CA
Workspace Assistant Team
Apps Search & Intelligence

Founding engineer, Chat feature detecting Apps search intents and providing intelligent assistive suggestions in Google Workspace.
Text-to-speech contributions, Google Assistant Calendar scheduling

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, MA
Learning and Intelligent Systems (LIS) Group
PI: Leslie Kaelbling

Led human-in-the-loop robotics project
Developed novel model for robots to collaborate optimally with human partners with irregular schedules
Implemented prototype simulating adaptation to human schedules

### Apps Intelligence Intern @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA
Team: Apps Intelligence
Project: Calendar Scheduling Assistant
Designed and implemented first smart schedule diagnosis features
for enterprise GSuite Assistant
Built end-to-end feature providing event conflict discovery and 
automated room booking for events without locations

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA
MIT Spoken Language Systems Group
PI: James Glass
Developed convolutional neural network for multimodal 
MOOC video retrieval project
Curated Ford training data with movie- and question-based
pre-training for transfer learning

### Distributed Systems Intern @ MongoDB
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Sharding Team
Improved network safety and performance by adapting MongoDB metadata commands to run from  configuration data servers rather than network routers
Designed and prototyped new finite state machine concurrency testing scheme for metadata commands

### Platform Operations Intern @ Akamai Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area
Collaborated to develop web app analyzing Akamai network health 
Developed Django backend REST API serving web app
Integrated and analyzed real-time alert data across Akamai databases
Modeled network relationships in PostgreSQL database schema


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Westwood High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jessica-yu-mit

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Last updated: 2026-04-10