# Josephine Koe

> Senior Software Engineer at Telos Health

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/josephinekoe

Loves building robots and passionate about assistive technology!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Telos Health
Jan 2025 – Present
- Building and maintaining safety-critical robotics software across multiple interacting subsystems
- Improving system robustness, monitoring, and fault handling through debugging and observability work
- Analyzing metrics and tuning system behavior to balance performance, safety, and reliability

### Robotics Software Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
- Wrote C++ software for driving surgical instruments on the Monarch robotic platform designed to assist with endoscopy procedures
- Provided rapid prototypes to test new ideas for controlling the surgical instruments and motion planning for the multi-DoF robotic arms
- Quickly debugged issues from real surgical procedures based on robot data and worked with a cross-functional team to develop corrective and preventive actions
- Improved functionality and consistency of automated Python tests of simulated surgical procedures in the CI/CD pipeline
- Improved state machine logic to better control the actions of multiple instruments

### EECS C106AB/206AB (Introduction to Robotics, Robotic Manipulation and Interaction) Course Staff @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Trained and led lab staff in teaching a variety of robotics topics through hands-on lab assignments as Head Lab TA (Fall 2021)
- Guided students through advanced robotics projects and facilitated discussions about recent robotics publications as a Lab TA (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
- Guided students through ROS lab assignments as a Lab Assistant (Fall 2020)

### HART Lab Undergraduate Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Designed an untethered soft sensor to determine the hardness and shape of objects

### Robotics Software Engineer Intern @ Johnson & Johnson
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Built a model to simulate sensor readings for the instrument device manipulator of a robotic platform designed to assist with endoscopy procedures

### Computer Vision Intern @ Dishcraft Robotics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Deployed a feature into production that uses machine learning to recognize failure cases in a stage of operation of the robot
- Assisted the AI team with operational tests and analysis of the collected data

### Electrical Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA
- Used Ruby on Rails, HTML, Javascript, and AJAX to improve an internal verification dashboard
- Restructured the database to make the website run more than 2X faster
- Added filters and different views to pages for easier data retrieval

### Intro to CS Bootcamp Instructor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Taught Ruby to UC Berkeley engineering students in between semesters
- Produced content for and recorded instructional videos on various programming topics


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josephinekoe

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Last updated: 2026-04-01