# Maxim G.

> Senior Controls, Systems, and Navigation Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maximg

- Senior Controls/Systems/Navigation/Guidance (GN&C) Engineer.
- R&D project/team management of automatic and autonomous motion and vision systems for automotive and aerospace platforms.
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience in full-cycle design and development process from concept and requirements through final system validation.   
- Proficient in design and implementation of control, navigation, calibration, guidance, estimation, and management algorithms, using inertial/relative/vision sensor fusion.
- Highly experienced in system engineering of motion-stabilized, automatic and autonomous systems, incl. vision and inertial-based.
- Led and managed Control and Navigation systems design / projects / teams, incl.: concepts, algorithms, sensors, actuators, H/W, S/W, F/W, etc.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Kodiak
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Developing safety critical control systems for autonomous driving of articulated vehicles.

### Senior Software Engineer | Motion Control @ Aurora
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Design, development, and implementation of motion control for autonomous passenger vehicles and trucks.

### Software Engineer | Planning, Optimization & Control @ Aurora
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Design, development, and implementation of motion control for autonomous passenger vehicles and trucks.

### Staff Controls Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA
Design, development, and implementation of motion control for autonomous vehicles.

### Research and Development Consultant @ MiRus™
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Design and development of inertial and vision sensor fusion algorithms for a medical navigation device.

### Research and Development Consultant @ Drivebox Automation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Design and development of ADAS system for trucks, data-driven optimal control architecture design & analysis.

### Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Atlanta Area
Research of stochastic control methods, applicable to robotics, control and machine learning. Probabilistic planning in belief space. Optimal control of stochastic systems with probabilistic boundary conditions and loss functions.

### Control / Navigation / Systems Engineer & Research Fellow @ Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Jan 2000 – Jan 2017
- Project / Team management. System engineering.
- Research and development of control, guidance and navigation systems


## Education
### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01