Hiring exceptional mechanical engineers with experience and passion for product design with mechanisms/robotics background.

Technical lead and manager for design, analysis, build and validation of ultra-light, compact, high performance mechanisms.

Member of Apple Vision Pro, design team. Helped ship Apple’s latest and most complex product yet.

Designed ultra-lightweight electro-mechanical systems. Dozens of patents on:

• Linear actuators (stepper/BLDC motors+planetary gearbox and lead-screws).

• Magnetic Hall effect encoders and their system integration (<25um resolution, <300um precision).

• Flexurized high-precision mounts.

• Bespoke miniature contact sensors (trigger threshold <5N).

• Textile/fabric enclosures design and optimization to maintain A-class cosmetics + low stiffness (critical to function for actuator force budgets).

• Linear and rotary guide systems with low backlash.

Member of the EDL architecture development team for Mars Sample Return Lander. Performed trade studies, architecture sizing analyses, and design of composite/metallic primary and secondary structures, mechanisms and separation systems of the entry vehicle.

The EDL team at JPL is responsible for pioneering breakthrough mechanical systems, devices, and techniques for planetary entry, descent, and landing, and supporting mechanical concept formulation.

Responsible engineer for design, analysis, test, and integration of the Docking mechanism for Mars 2020 (Perseverance) rover.

Part of validation and failure analysis team for the Docking mechanism and multiple other actuator driven systems.

System successfully operational on Mars, since February 2021.

Designed stage separation fixture for dynamic testing. Analyzed part strength and modal response using ANSYS. Parts were used for flight hardware random vibe qualification test.

Created drawings for qualification test hardware using NX and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).

Implemented process improvements for test plans and inspections by designing mylar and vinyl wraps that will save on average 250 NDT hours per tank.

Increased manufacturing rate of COPV struts using Design of Experiments (DOE) and Minitab to refine acceptance criteria.