# Martin Wojtczyk > Software Engineer at osdyne. Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/martinwojtczyk Award-winning Robotics and Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building real-world, production-grade systems across robotics, embedded systems, AI, and computer vision. I design and deliver end-to-end systems for autonomous robots, industrial automation, and medical AI under real operational constraints. Principal/Staff Engineer experience at PARC (Xerox), Covariant, Velodyne LiDAR, and Caption Health, as well as founder experience in consumer robotics startups. Intel Black Belt Developer & Intel Software Innovator. Fluent in English and German. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ osdyne Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States * Owned embedded bring-up and infrastructure across platforms from power-on to CI. * Shipped multiple customer-facing projects in robotics, healthcare, and IoT under real-time and reliability constraints. * Built core systems libraries. ### Robotics Software and Automation Consulting @ Unknown Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Emeryville, California, United States * Advised early-stage startups on robotics, AI, and automation architecture, guiding products from prototype through MVP. * Designed and implemented proof-of-concept systems across robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. * Delivered hands-on development in C++, Python, and PyTorch across perception, control, and ML pipelines. ### Principal Software Engineer @ PARC, a Xerox Company Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States * Led algorithm and model productization for Novity, a new venture at PARC focused on predictive maintenance, taking research models toward deployable products. * Designed and implemented time-series analytics and ML pipelines in Python and Go, targeting real-world industrial data and constraints. * Architected software systems and supporting infrastructure to enable scalable deployment, data ingestion, and model execution. * Led the Edge Gateway Software Team through the first paying customer deployment, coordinating closely with hardware and systems teams. * Defined technical milestones, guided QA efforts, and contributed to project management to ensure delivery readiness and reliability. * Technical leader across disciplines, bridging research, engineering, and product requirements. ### Sr. Principal Software Engineer @ covariant.ai Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, CA * Architected and delivered end-to-end autonomous robot cell solutions for order picking and parcel handling, deployed in production eCommerce and logistics environments. * Led the transition from prototype robot setups to industrial-grade systems, refactoring server-side software in Python and robot control code for ABB robots in RAPID. * Drove robot cell productization to meet industrial, safety, and reliability standards in close collaboration with electrical, mechanical, and software engineering teams. * Designed and implemented Hardware-in-the-Loop robot cells and simulation environments to enable CI/CD, testing, and faster iteration. * Served as a technical lead and mentor, guiding junior engineers and advising the company on software and hardware architecture direction. * Worked directly with customers on-site to support deployments, integration, and operational success. ### Sr. Principal Engineer, Automation and Robotics @ Velodyne LiDAR, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Jose * Enabled high-throughput lidar production by automating calibration and validation workflows across multiple factory lines. * Led development of large-scale industrial automation systems for lidar sensor manufacturing, spanning robotics, motion control, vision, and data systems. * Designed and implemented automation software that coordinated robotic cells, test fixtures, and factory equipment, enabling high-throughput, repeatable production. * Architected distributed control and data pipelines to manage device calibration, validation, and production telemetry at scale. * Built reliability, diagnostics, and monitoring into automation workflows to reduce downtime and support factory operations. * Partnered closely with manufacturing, hardware, and operations teams to translate production requirements into robust software systems. * Served as a technical owner for automation platforms used in day-to-day manufacturing, balancing throughput, quality, and system reliability. ### Senior Staff Software Engineer (promoted from Senior Software Engineer) @ Caption Health Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area * Tech Lead for EchoTablet: a distributed, soft real-time C++ system delivering AI-driven cardiac ultrasound analysis on medical hardware. * Designed and built multimodal data acquisition pipelines and early deep learning training infrastructure for cardiac ultrasound. * Trained and deployed neural networks for image analysis and clinical workflows, working directly with physicians and sonographers to validate real-world use. * Developed HIPAA-compliant C++ de-identification pipelines processing petabytes of DICOM data across clinical institutions nationwide. * Contributed to an award-winning medical AI platform (NVIDIA Inception Award, GABA Rising Stars). ### Lead Roboticist & Co-Founder @ Cubotix Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area * Co-founded and built an award-winning autonomous consumer robot featuring 3D sensing and gesture-based interaction. * Led robotics software spanning perception, computer vision, and autonomous mobile navigation. * Recognized as Intel Black Belt Developer and Intel Software Innovator after winning three Intel Perceptual Computing Awards (2013). ### Lead Developer & Co-Founder @ Electrotag Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area * Co-founded and built a mobile computer-vision product integrating social networking features. * Grand Prize Winner, Intel StartupBus Mobile Hackathon (2011). ### Robotics Software Engineer (Contract) @ Bayer HealthCare, Berkeley Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 | United States * Software engineer for a mobile service robotics system used to monitor bioreactor stations in live cell culture laboratories. * Designed and implemented autonomous robot software for end-to-end sample handling in a cell culture pilot plant. ### Research Associate / Research Assistant @ Technical University of Munich Jan 2004 – Jan 2012 | Bayern, Germany * Built and deployed autonomous mobile robot software stacks used across multiple platforms in academia and industry. * Lead software engineer for a mobile service robot control library deployed internally and at Robotics Equipment Corporation GmbH. * Contributor to OpenTL, a general-purpose visual tracking library adopted in commercial systems (RoboKam). * Delivered the full software stack for Festo’s F5/F5s mobile robot platforms, showcased at Hannover Fair 2009. * Prototyped computer-vision systems for microscopy-based drug discovery. * Established cross-platform development workflows reused across the department. * Advised Master’s theses and undergraduate projects. ## Education ### PhD / Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science, Robotics Technical University of Munich ### Dipl.-Inf. in Computer Science Technical University of Munich ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wojtczyk - Website: https://archive.air.in.tum.de/Main/Wojtczyk.html - Website: http://martin.wojtczyk.de/wp/about/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/martinwojtczyk JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/martinwojtczyk/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05